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By Erin and Kevin
May 13th 2007

Our Final Day in Ireland!

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Dublin at Night
Finally, no more rain!

This is it -- no more entries after this one! We got up early to start the long drive back to Dublin from Belfast. Unfortunately Kevin has more faith in his map-reading skills tham might be warranted -- we ended up off course (which is pretty hard, since the Belfast-to-Dublin highway is pretty much a straight lin). After some cursing, we finally got back on track and made it down to our first stop, the site of Newgrange. Newgrange is home to an ancient Irish burial mound. Centuries ago, years before the Pyramids were built, the local inhabitants built this place [View Full Entry]

By Erin and Kevin
May 8th 2007

Dubliners

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River Liffey & Dublin

After a week in the country, we're back in the big city. Dublin is awesome-- sort of reminiscent of London in a way. London with an edge, maybe. Frenetic, crowded, tons of restaurants and pubs, lots of young professional types hurrying around. We seem to be in the way. And underdressed. We're staying at the Westin, right near Trinity College and St. Stephen's Green. The location is excellent and we've been hoofing it all over the city seeing some of the sights and trying not to get trampled. Some of the fine things we've seen thus far: Dublin Castle: The seat [View Full Entry]

Kevin in the crypt under Christ Church Cathedral

By alanamadeleine
May 3rd 2007

Dublin

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St. Stephen's Green Park

I arrived in Dublin yesterday afternoon from London. It's a very nice very european city...in that most of it's residents/tourists seem to be from other european countries besides Ireland. At least in the center. The Irish-ness seemed to increase outside of city center. But I had to walk quite a ways to find the local thrift store and a real butcher. My hostel has a nice kitchen, so I've been economically recreating things I read on Irish menus. I'm just back from the Evensong service at St. Patrick's cathedral. It was probably one of the highlights of the day. It [View Full Entry]

By Claire and Brendon
April 29th 2007

Eire - returning home

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They start them young in Ireland
No joke - this kid chugged away at his beer. His parents reckon he loves the stuff!

Well it is rather embarrassing to admit that while I have an Irish passport, and both Brendon & I have rellies originating from Dublin, neither of us have ever been to Dublin. Well, not that is, until a couple of weekends ago when we had an opportunity too good to pass up. Our touch team organised a social tournament with a bunch of people in Ireland. And we agreed to go - being thrilled that we’d finally get to see where our sncestors were from - albeit briefly. We flew over on the Friday night, checked out the infamous and [View Full Entry]

By calandbradineurope
April 27th 2007

Ireland

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Friday April 27 Bus to Gatwick is surprisingly OK and seemed a lot quicker than the one we caught into london the other day. Flight to Dublin: seat, cattle class find any one you can first in best dressed. apparently it costs more for them to book you an allocated seat?? go figure. noisy poms, rude americans and crying foregin children FANTASTIC April 28th did a hop on hop off bus tour which took an hour and a bit . the tour showed all the major sights of dublin. April 29th got up around 8ish to get to the museum by [View Full Entry]

By bsmurf77
April 27th 2007

Trip to Ireland: Day 2

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Dublin, Ireland
Christ Church Cathedral

Today was another warm day in Dublin. After a small breakfast at the hostel, my friend Mary (from BU who's studying in Spain) and I went and visited Dublin's Botanic Gardens. It was very pretty, but I didn't take any photos with my digital camera, instead focusing on the film camera. After returning to the city centre, we visited Christ Church Cathedral. It was interesting, having underground catacombs, but much of it looked as if it had placed there in the 1700's or later (as if things had been removed and replaced). We then headed to St. Audden's Church, which [View Full Entry]

By Erica J
April 26th 2007

Ireland - to be sure, to be sure!

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Guinness
The Perfect Pint!

Ireland was great. I had such a good time getting around and seeing the different places. Spent a day doing the touristing thing on a hop on hop off bus. Went to Trinity College and the Book of Kells - pretty amazing. Gotta love a good old bible! I also went to St Patrick's but didn't go in because it cost too much for my lowly Aussie dollars! David, Clare and I went to the Guinness Storehouse. It was great. I pulled the perfect pint (apparently) and recieved a certificate to prove it! [View Full Entry]

By bsmurf77
April 26th 2007

My trip to Ireland: Day 1

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Dublin, Ireland
The Custom House

My trip to Ireland: Day 1 Europe » Ireland » Dublin » Dublin By bsmurf77 April 26th 2007 Scotland to Ireland Brian Murphy Well, I arrived safely in Dublin, Ireland. I truly had the smoothest air travel I have ever [View Full Entry]

By Tara and Shay
April 22nd 2007

leaving the city of beer

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Dublin
A grassy null.. or how ever you spell it

its our last day in dublin. its been quite the stay. we basically managed to see everything in the city in one day...except for the guiness brewery, which we are planning on seeing today before we catch the bus back to london. yesterday we checked out a church and castle. we pretty much just wandered aroung though. there really isn't much to do during the day. at night the city is hopping though. we went pub hopping last night and met a bunch of students from various places in europe who have been studying here. we ended up tagging along [View Full Entry]

By Mzungu
April 21st 2007

Ireland Day 1

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Trinity College
About 10 steps from our hotel

After our overnight flight poor Kevin had to adjust to driving stick on the opposite side of the road through downtown Dublin. Luckily he had some practice while we were in South Africa so after only one minor mishap we made it safely to our hotel. We decided to splurge for the beginning of our trip and stayed in the Westin at College Green which is directly across from Trinity college and pretty close to Temple Bar. After quickly checking in and ditching our bags we decided to start our trip with a tour on one of those double-decker hop-on/hop-off buses. [View Full Entry]

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