Blogs from County Dublin, Ireland, Europe - page 140

After enjoying a farewell meal at a local restaurant (if I’d known how many sandwich-type foods I’d be eating on this trip, I might not have had a sandwich for my farewell meal), we were at the airport and on our way. We had to connect in Toronto, where we had a 5 hour wait for our flight to Dublin. We occupied ourselves by having some really terrible chicken wings and downing Diet Cokes that had to be poured into cups because of the ban on liquids. We also heard a few Irish accents and saw a few Irish passports, which caused us to transform into giggly little schoolgirls. As the plane left the ground, we did little happy dances in our seats and then tried to get some sleep. We put on our very chic ... read more

Well I ended up getting a couple of days work from Jules sister which was good to help fund our weekend in Dublin!! Alana and I jetted off on Friday night (our first flight together in 6 years!!! Wierd) after our 'quiet' thursday night before heading to Dublin for Fran's Hen night (one of Alana and Jule's best mates), we actually ended up getting rather pissed with everyone and were rather hungover! My first impressions of Ireland - rain, rain, cute accents, rain, rain, oops beer, rain, beer - you get the picture. We spent Saturday eating, then went to the pub - of course to get out of the rain!!! Ended back at the hostel at about 6.30 to get changed to head back out to you guessed it, drink more beer. We were all ... read more

Well it's bag packing time.. Tonight I'm heading to the airport to sleep there since there are no buses that will get me to the airport in time. This is so typical all over ther world.. Since I wrote last I've seen alot more of Dublin. Saturday night I went downtown to met up with the fire spinners that live around this city. I was hoping to jump in for a spin but alas the Police here are starting to really crack down on the local buskers. But I did have a good time watching them and chatting with the locals. It's absolutly unreal how many people are downtown on the weekends here. I thought week nights were busy but boy was I wrong. REALLY wrong, in certain parts the line-ups are going out onto the ... read more

I found that title on a statue. The last few days have been great.. Let's see shall we run down the checklist of my events in Ireland?? Welcome to the Check list of events completed in Ireland in the last few days with a brief desciption. Seen irish man completly freak out at tourist info center.. this involved counter kicking and alot of spit. CHECK This happened a few days ago.. We honestly couldn't understand any word except shit and something to do with bus. It was very angry and the guards were there within minutes. Visiting interest museums including many stuffed dead animals and million dollar paintings..... CHECK This one building was outstanding it had 4 floors wall to wall of stuffed animals. The main floor was all of the animals in the irish sea ... read more

Well I've come to a final conclusion... I suck at this traveling thing. Yesterday morning I couldn't get my ass out of bed my hand instinctfully kept hitting the snooze button and before I knew it I had 3 hours before my plane left. Frantically I ran around the house throwing the last of what I needed for my trip praying to the organization gods that I had everything I needed and called a cab. I thought I had plently of time. THOUGHT being the operative word. Waiting.. waiting... waiting.. waiting.. just as I thought I should call them again the cab showed up. Once at the train station I'm positive I missed the train because the waiting game started all over again.... by this point I'm staring at the clock thinking.. I don't think I'm ... read more