Blogs from Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland, Europe - page 13

So we had quite the interesting start to our Eurotrip part 3. Tabi and I were visiting with our friends Filip and Lidijia that evening before we had our morning flight to Scotland. At midnight we started to head to the airport since we were planning on sleeping at the airport since our flight was departing at 7:30a.m. On the highway to the airport the car started to overheat. When we were stopped on the side of the road it was discovered that there was no water in the car to cool it down. So Filip and I started to walk somewhere to try to find some water. We eventually found a McDonalds and since the lobby was closed we had to walk though the drive thru. Now I forgot to mentioned Filip just turned 27 ... read more

There was an overflowing audience at St Patrick's Cathedral tonight for the festival concert. We made many new friends in all the choirs. It was difficult to say goodbye. We are packed and trying to sleep before our 5 am wake up for our flight home. See everyone soon. ... read more

After 18 hours of travel time, Kelsi and I finally made it to Dublin. The started with me leaving my passport at the Delta counter in Omaha (whoops!) Thankfully it was still there when I realized it was missing. Our flight was delayed in Atlanta for 4 hours. So we had a total of 7 hours to kill there. We went to almost every terminal out of boredom. We finally started boarding the plane at 10:30pm and took off at 11:20pm. The flight was just shy of 8 hours. Kelsi and I were both hoping to get a good amount of sleep on the flight over, but each only manage about 3.5 hours. We finally arrived in Dublin, Ireland at 11:30am. We took a taxi to our hotel and experienced our first car ride on the ... read more

General info: Currency: Euro Cost of living: 1,5l bottle of water 1Eur, bottle of beer in pub 5Eur, meal in mid restaurant 15Eur Dublin- beautiful capital city in the country of saint Patrick and Molly Malone. Land of Guinness and Jameson. Saint Patrick irish feast is very well know and widely celebrated around the world on 17th March. It's dominated by green colour- National colour of Ireland, and obligatory thing to celebrate properly is drinking irish whiskey, beer or cider. There are many legends about Molly Malone but the thing that made her immortal is a folkloristic song about her- unofficial anthem of Dublin. Local streets are very lively and full of variety of street art- music, painting, dancing and acting performances. You just feel like want to be here. Although only Northen territory of Ireland ... read more

There could conceivably be those out there who followed this blog in the past. We stopped four years ago with just one or, perhaps, two posts about a trip to Japan a couple of years ago. We had stopped because we had arrived back in Australia and had set about establishing a base. At the time we were bemoaning the fact that we had missed a couple of countries that had always been high on the list of those we would like to visit. We made the decision to skip Ireland and Greece on our long trip because, at the time, we didn't have the time to do them justice. That issue is now being addressed. Flights to Dublin from Australia for this time of the year were fairly attractive when we floated in and had ... read more