Blogs from Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland, Europe - page 104

Happy Canada Day! Too bad Dublin isn't a very exciting city. I'm glad that we came here because if we hadn't I would have regretted it, but having been here I wouldn't come back. Everyone we talked to was rude and unhelpful, save for our eastern european hostel staff, and the sketchy, dirty, loud hostel really didn't make for a fun place. We went on a small bus tour and saw the Guinness brewery which was pretty cool but by the evening we were both so frustrated with Dublin, and I felt sick, so we didn't go out for Canada Day, oh well. Next year. On the 2nd we wandered around a bit, saw some more of Dublin and then caught a bus to the airport which arrived at 3:30, for our 7:15 flight. A little ... read more

So today was relatively uneventful. I went to the National Library of Ireland. It's amazingly beautiful. Mosaic floors in a beautiful pattern, corinthian columns gold-tipped at the top and a cameo-esque frieze at the top with a dusky rose background. The reading room is equally amazing with differing shades of aqua wall paint and a very ornate frieze at the top with cupids all over it, and the wood panelling is equally as ornately carved. I discovered that librarys here are very different from what we imagine as a library...closed stacks folks! I haven't looked through a card catalogue in years! But wow! There's some amazing stuff there. Then I went on my normal meandering, but it was really windy! So I went into a well-known sweater shop which has simply gorgeous stuff, by the way, ... read more

Sorry for the lack of updates lately. There are multiple reasons why I haven't. One I have been in a crappy mood and didnt feel like subjecting everyone to my rants. I wasnt getting very much sleep because there were some American undergraduate students in our dorm building and they were loud all night long every night! Also being nauseated all the time doesnt make you sunny happy. I am feeling much better now. I have dropped my internship which I really did not want to do but I was so exhausted all of the time I could not do it anymore. BTW why do pregnant women glow??? This is really not a lot of fun. You cant drink alcohol or caffiene, cant take headache medicine, food tastes funny and you change your mind about what ... read more

Took Joshy on his first ever flight...to Dublin! Everything went well until later on ( more about that in a minute !). We flew with Ryanair from Manchester and for the three of us it cost 6 pence...and that included all airport taxes and charges. Nobody believes us that it cost us 2 pence each return, but it was an offer Ryanair were doing a month ago by giving away 1 million free flights over a five day period. Apparantly, after we have checked in with them, the 6 pence gets refunded back onto our credit card, thus making the flight free! During the offer, we booked flights for the rest of the family to and from Dublin and we're going later this year in October for our wedding anniversary for a weekend away. Anyway, ... read more

Well guys its been quite a while since I sent out on of these things now hasn't it been. Really Ive just gotten so lazy. I have like 2 weeks worth of pictures and shit... and I just couldnt be asked to add them on here. Buuuut here we are, and yes... you can now check it all out. Alex and I took 2 weeks off from work at the end of may and headed Ireland bound to meet up with her folks. It was good times. The time getting there was interesting and definitely wore me out. we had no idea where we were going, only a couple bus numbers to hop on and a house name of where we were staying/meeting her family. So first impressions of the Irish... assholes. No help for ... read more