an island comprising the republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
a republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of Ireland; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1921
An island in the British Isles that lies west of Great Britain. Approximately four fifths of the area of Ireland constitutes the Republic of Ireland, with the remaining one fifth belonging to Northern Ireland. After an unsuccessful rebellion in 1798, union of Britain and Ireland followed in 1801. In 1922, Ireland was partitioned by the Anglo-Irish Treaty
Ireland (,; Eire, ; Ulster Scots: Airlann) is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the northwest of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islets.
(price) monetary value: the property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold); "the fluctuating monetary value of gold and silver"; "he puts a high price on his services"; "he couldn't calculate the cost of the collection"
Decide the amount required as payment for (something offered for sale)
determine the price of; "The grocer priced his wares high"
(price) the amount of money needed to purchase something; "the price of gasoline"; "he got his new car on excellent terms"; "how much is the damage?"
A tire (in American English) or tyre (in British English) is a ring-shaped covering that fits around a wheel rim to protect it and enable better vehicle performance by providing a flexible cushion that absorbs shock while keeping the wheel in close contact with the ground.
(tyre) tire: hoop that covers a wheel; "automobile tires are usually made of rubber and filled with compressed air"
A rubber covering, typically inflated or surrounding an inflated inner tube, placed around a wheel to form a flexible contact with the road
A strengthening band of metal fitted around the rim of a wheel
(tyre) Sur: a port in southern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea; formerly a major Phoenician seaport famous for silks
hours of waiting in zurich airport
i wrote this in my sleep deprived state (which i'm about to fix after these photos).
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In the Zurich airport, 10am here and my computer tells me that it should be 4am for my body. So far, the airport has lots of (swatch) watches, (lindt) chocolate, booze, and shuttle trains that moo. Yes, moo, and I have no idea why. I’m very sleepy! I couldn’t get to sleep at all on the flight over here. The plane was nice, the legroom was not nice. We were fed a pretzel snack, drink, then full dinner five minutes after the snack (??). i had the ravioli. Then there were more drink carts and then we got fruit and banana bread for breakfast around 630am. Each seat back had a teeny tv where you could either watch a few different movies with headphones or look at a real time map of where the plane was, how fast it was going and all. That was fun, until we flew over nova scotia and it was all ocean from there on out. I watched the miniature plane icon fly near Ireland FOREVER and then over france. The girl behind me kept kicking my seat and I was tired but just couldn’t quite fall asleep. My view right now looks pretty much like any american airport, just with more red swiss flags and cooler airplanes from Thailand. All the exit signs depict a man running for his life. Everything is in german first, then English. However I am hearing lots of different languages and the departures seem to go every place in the world. They take euros here but they use swiss francs, which are $1.50 to the euro. Imagine my confusion when my lunch price was $11.50 and I only had to hand over a 10 euro to get plenty of change back! Also, I am the only person wearing flip flops here, but I had a feeling that would happen. I am sitting with Lauren the Travel Buddy until we find out our gate number (they don’t display gate numbers til an hour before your flight) but there are only three areas to the airport, sooo I’ve been reading my guidebook to Florence. I am sure I will read this later and be like “wow, I must have been tired, this makes no sense.”
A Hubodometer
This is a hubodometer which is a device mounted on the axle of an automobile or other vehicle that measures distance traveled. The whole device rotates with the wheel except for an eccentrically mounted weight on an internal shaft. This remains pointing downwards and drives the counting mechanism as the body of the hubometer rotates round it.
The hubodometer is used on bus wheels where the tires are supplied to the bus operator by an independent company on a contract of "price per thousand kilometers". The hubometer is installed by the tire company to give them their own measure.
The first hubodometers were designed by Engler which was later bought by Stemco and sold under the brand of Stemco Engler Hubodometers finally ending with the Stemco Hubodometer in the early 80's. The first hubodometer with no moving parts was made by Stemco and released in 2002 under the name DataTrac.
After years, or even just a few months, the hubodometer can clock up hundreds of thousands of miles and so it's rather nice to see this one here with just 108 miles on the clock. On this the first day for this Lothian Airlink bus this probably will have been the distance from the boat on the west coast of Scotland (after the journey from Ireland).