Blogs from Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland, Europe - page 95

...the Guiness really is better here! So i arrived around 9am Dublin time on March 1st. The flight went well...i slept most of the way. I spent most of my first day just wandering around City Centre, Dublin making an attempt to acclimate myself. HA. good luck! Luckily though, the people here are SO welcoming and always willing to share a story...even when all you wanted was directions to the pub. I'm making a joke out of it, but really it's such an amazing thing to meet a person for 5 minutes and before you know it you're laughing harder than you ever thought possible over a "lovely pint" of guiness at Whelan Pub listening to live bluegrass with Kiefer Sutherland! ahahahha! (but that's another story all together!) After a day of wandering around O'Connell Steet ... read more

Our first trip around Ireland was like travelling back in time. The roads - so narrow. The radio stations - so old. The lack of music on a Sunday morning as church is broadcast across the airways. We felt like hippies travelling through the 60s. Thoroughly enjoyed the countryside - except for the bloody hedges. You couldn't see anything over the top of them and every country road had them everywhere! Watched Ireland play rugby in the pub and stayed in Wexford which unfortunately was pretty dead. I think the photos describe what we did best - so have a look at them! Enjoy! Zoe & Dave... read more

Well, we've finally found some time to get this blog done. Feeling the pressure from the Cooper clan to get another entry on here so here it is... We have settled. We are out of Belinda and John's hair - gees we were lucky to have them over here as a base. Would have been pretty crappy without them and Lindy Foat as well. Cheers to them! We're living in Smithfield, only 5 minute tram trip into the city centre. We were sooooooooo lucky to get this place, but we did persist with viewing places to get it...glad it paid off. We both have jobs now - Zoe is working as a legal secretary in LK Shields, a corporate Solicitors in the city. Getting €17 an hour (above average wage - yay!) so I actually take ... read more

I had a marvelous day off yesterday. It started with tea in the morning at church which i attend every wednesday. Always good craic! Joe came to that, so then we went and bought tickets to cirque du soleil (Me, Laura Patri and Rosa are going in april!!), and walked around in lovely weather and joe handed out a few CVs. Then we went to the oldest pub in ireland, the brazenhead, and had beef and guinness stew (delicious!!). Later that day we watched the last king of scotland... very good movie!! And then it came to be the moment i´d been waiting for : tegan and sara concert. Oy. I must say, i´ve been embarassingly detatched from the canadian music scene since being here, and did not realise they were coming to town until last ... read more

Last weekend I stayed in Dublin for once. All three of my roommates were traveling, so for most of the weekend I actually had the flat to myself - absolutely no complaints there. Friday was somewhat of a lazy day, but in the evening we went to the cinema to see "Be Kind Rewind" and after that, a bunch of us got together here to cook a big fancy dinner & dessert. Then after a small food coma we went to a couple of different pubs trying to find some traditional music, and ran into some friends on the way. Our quest took us to the north side of the Liffey River which is 50% more shady than the rest of the city so ... I don't think I'll be venturing over there at night any ... read more