Blogs from Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland, Europe - page 110

what a massive day in Ireland. there are so many people here! we are totally hung over and tired after our big one in temple bar, but we made it uo in time to head down to the parade. but, couldn't see a thing. all the streets are blocked off and no one is allowed through for any reason. so we did it like the locals and went to the pub to watch it on the big screen. the parade was huge and went for about 2 hours, there was floats about the vikings and the celts and irish dancers and everything. it really was fantastic to watch. then we went to a pub called The Arlington. this pub was massive! it was two levels and the bottom had irish music and dancers, while upstairs ... read more

We got up early on Friday morning, and caught the bus down to Paddington Station. We grabbed a few supplies for the trip and found Beth plus the rest of our tour group, bumping into Klaus on the way (on a different tour). We started on our journey to Holyhead in Wales, picking up Nicola (friend from our Edinburgh trip) and some others. We only just caught the 2.15pm ferry sailing to Dublin Port, which if we had missed, we would have had to wait for the next sailing in the morning!. The boat trip took about 3.5 - 4 hours, which we spent eating, watching cricket and wandering around the large ship, and bumped into Klaus a few times. We arrived in Ireland without any passport control (!?), and drove into central Dublin to our ... read more

Steve (Flint) here- Finally, the day has come. We head to LAX very early, no screwing this up. We get our tickets, eat at Daily Gril, and have pint or two in the airport bar. The plane trip is excrutiating, humans aren't meant to sit for such a long period of time. Prescription sleeping pills would have been nice. The flight is otherwise unremarkable, and we arrive in one piece. We are in Ireland! This is so awesome, everything is going to be amazing...right? Ok, we have a small problem. We can't find our hotel, and nobody wants to help us. We ask a few folks, and they say, "go down this street and turn right." But they are lying! We eventually figure out that everyone hates George Bush and that "right" means "left." We now ... read more

Flight was delayed heading over. So we were stuck in bristol airport waiting for the incoming flight when a guy from boston started talking to us. What a weird freakin accent! Anyway got in about midnight and got a taxi straight to steffs. Bit o food, bit o smoke, bit o wine. grand job. Pottered into the city on saturday - down to keatings at the bottom of henry street near the Jervis centre. Night place, food pretty decent - upper class pub food. Fairly expensive, but then everything looks more expensive in euros. When will those animals accept the queens head? Afternoon, we just chilled around dublin. Popped into a few shops - pennys and dunnes mostly. The city is so manic even just on what should be a fairly quiet saturday. People must look ... read more

I’m tired of typing. Oh well, I’m pushing through the pain! We got up good and early on Friday and headed out to see Dublin, after checking out and storing our luggage for the day. That is one really nice thing about most hostels…they provided luggage storage for the day fro about 1 euro or so, which is definitely worth it. Lugging luggage all day is not much fun! So, we got a map, a recommendation of what we should try to see and set off. Now, Laura’s not great with directions and maps, so I was the navigator for this trip. But, luckily we found everything pretty easily. We went to Dublin Castle first. There they had a neat little gift shop, which Laura and I picked up little souvenirs in, to remember our ... read more