Weekend In Dublin

Hello all,


We spent the weekend in Dublin and had a great time. We saw a ton of stuff and walked until our legs hurt. Definitely check out the 267 pictures I took on the slideshow. I'll try to sum up what we did on here, but there is just too much. Best bet is to look at the pictures and every few i'll try to explain what we did.

Friday morning we went to the airport 2 hours before our flight and ended up getting through security in less than 3 minutes. There is hardly anything to do with ryanair if you dont check any bags. You print your boarding pass at home and walk to the gate. We hung out for a while then got onto the plane. There is no seat assignments on ryanair, which i found a bit funny. The plane took off and about 20 minutes later it landed. We were in Dublin.

We took the bus to the city center and found our hostel. I've never been in a hostel, so i didnt really know what to expect, but it was pretty nice. There were a 16 beds in the room and a bathroom connecting another room of 16. Quite a different way to live for a few days but definitely cheap. We were able to get locks and lock our stuff in cages under the beds, which was nice because we wouldnt have to carry our bags around all day.

First thing we did was go to Guinness. We had a few hours before it closed so we walked to the brewery and did the tour. Pretty fun times. They had a self-guided tour of the huge 7 story building. Check out the pics for sure of this one. Best part of all was free pint of Guinness at the 100m high Gravity Bar.

We returned to the room and got ready to go grab some food and check out the Temple Bar area which had all the pubs and clubs. We headed into town and found The Temple Bar of Temple Bar. It had Guinness as their cheapest pint and a live traditional irish band. So Reline and I are standing there watching the band and this guy walks buy with a Pittsburgh Steeler shirt on. Immediately I tap him on the shoulder and ask him where he is from and it turns out he is from the south park area. Pretty crazy. His friend was from Philly and we got to make fun of the Flyers for a little bit before we headed off.

Next we headed to the Porter House. This pub was recommended by our friend from Dublin who visits Cork regularly. This place was pretty fun and brews all of their own beer. There was a ton to choose from and they were reallllly good. We headed in early so we could get up and tour the city.

Saturday we woke up early and started to walk around. The sites we saw are in the following order and i'll do my best to caption the pictures.

1 - Christ Church Cathedral
2 - O'Connell St - saw many statues of the 1916 Uprising, the Dublin Spire, the huge general post office
3 - Trinity College
4 - St Stephens Green
5 - Dublin Castle
6 - St. Patricks Cathedral
7 - Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Royal Hospital
8 - Kilmainham Gaol
9 - Garden of Remembrance

So those we all the sites that we were able to get to in one day. Dublin offers a city tour bus for 12.50 and you can hop on and off at various stops. We chose to do that and it seemed to be an OK deal. Some stops were easier to walk between than fight for a bus seat. Check out the pictures for some descriptions. They should be complete in a few days.

This week I will be busy with a few papers I have due next week. I'm not sure whats going on this weekend, but I will update soon.

Finally, I removed most of the pictures from the slideshow bars on the side. All the pictures are on the picasa web account of buiklimektr. Any pictures new/old that you want to see can be found there.

Talk to you soon,

Travis