Excerpt from Chad Vangsness's blog:

Chad = University of Illinois student that is at UCD

with me & will be traveling a lot with me.

He likes to update with stories that make fun

of me, mostly, but I don't blame him.

"Lets talk about the prices of things in Ireland: Everything is expensive except bananas.. They must grow those things here or something. I thought bananas were only from Brazil or something. Those things are 10 for 1 euro. Thats the best deal on this entire continent... I am going to eat sooooo many bananas.

On the expensive side of things.. Scotch Brand tape remains to be the biggest rip-off... 5 euro for a puny roll of tape...Thats over $6.50 in Ammurica... Looks like I won't be doing a lot of taping this semester which is really disappointing."