{"id":1907,"date":"2025-06-02T01:50:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T01:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointparksocstudent.com\/Internationalmedia\/Ireland2025\/?p=1907"},"modified":"2025-06-02T02:06:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T02:06:28","slug":"day-5-howth-museum-radio-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointparksocstudent.com\/Internationalmedia\/Ireland2025\/2025\/06\/02\/day-5-howth-museum-radio-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 5: Howth Museum &amp; Radio Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today, we ventured to Howth, which also meant I got to ride the train for the first time. It&#8217;s about the same as any train I&#8217;ve been on, but this does allow me to segway into something I noticed while in Ireland: the Irish know what&#8217;s up when it comes to public transportation. It is SO much better than what we&#8217;ve got here in Pittsburgh. Like, by a sizable margin. In terms of size, comfortability, accessibility. In just about every category, they&#8217;ve got Pittsburgh beat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyways, Howth was very beautiful. It&#8217;s a seaside town with a large port. We saw a seal in the water and it was adorable. Not important to the trip per say, but it was important to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We walked up a very, VERY long hill towards the Radio Museum. And along the way, our tour guide got lost and we had to backtrack down the hill. Just thought I&#8217;d mention that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The museum was very cute and lively and smelled like a grandma. It was full of old radios and novelty radios and radio artifacts and posters about radio things. The tour guide was very nice and clearly passionate about his job&#8230;.but oh my god, I could not understand a word he was saying. He had, by far, the thickest Irish accent I encountered the entire trip. That was something that surprised me the first few days in Dublin, how not-thick peoples&#8217; accents were. But I realized that being the touristy\/major-multicultural city it is, accents in Dublin would probably not be the thickest and as you get further by the coasts and countryside, that&#8217;s where the thick accents would be. And I was right because I think I caught every seventeenth word our guide said. 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