FRIDAY:
Friday night we arrived at our hostel at about 11pm so we still had TONS of time to party... hahaha and since we were located right in the centre of Dublin we had tons of bars and pubs around us. The first place we went was called Fitzgeralds, it was exactly what you would picture an Irish pub to be... banners, fireplace and live music. We loved it, we found a spot close to the music and enjoyed it, it was one sole man with a guitar and he played all pub classics until about 12:30. After he finished we moved across the street (and rivier) to another bar called Panama. This was more of a club scene, it was two floors and the first floor had a light up bridge that you could cross and lood over the basement floor. The roof was also curved and made of brick it was awesome. Rita and I had a dance party here, we also met 3 guys from Boston and hung out with them for a little. Sadly we learnt to quickly that Irish boys don't general hang out in central Dublin (kinda like it is in London too); we had both dreamt that there would be swarms of Irish chaps waiting to swarm us (equilicant to how the American girls swarmed the English guy in Love Actually) but we were sadly mistake, FOULED!
me in the park that was at the end of Grafton St.
SATURDAY:
Saturday Rita and I started our day by heading to Blackrock in hopes to find a sweet market we saw online... however upon arrival it looked less sweet and more ghetto, but who would have known the pictures looked sweet online lol. But good did come from this because Blackrock was a small town on the seaside... so we had a chance to see that! From there we went shopping on Grafton St., which had tons of buskers and street stands, this is were we found a park. It was so beautiful like a little oasis in the center of the hussle and bussle. From there we went to the Cathedral District and visiting St. Patricks Cathedral and Christ Church... the weather we had on the trip was very nice consideratably. We had mainly clear skies and the only time it rained was when we left Sunday which we loved because it was suppose to rain all weekend (what can I say mother nature loves us!)
After we visited the churches and asked God for our forgivness we obvious went to the Guinness Storehouse! Not before stopping at a pub for some grub (this is where the bad part of the weekend takes place I think). After eatting I felt like crap, and for the rest of the night my stomach was very unsettled... and it hindered our night but we made the best of it. We took the tour of the Guinness Brewery which was cool but a little over played I thought, It was 7 floors and it could have been done nicely in about 3 or 4, and it was very do it yourself where as other brewerys and distillarys have tours and guides. But not the less it was cool, the building was decided in the shape of a pint glass... and when Mr. Guinness bought the building 250 years ago he signed a 9000 year lease for 45 pounds a YEAR! Crazy facts you learn eh!
We called it quicks earlier than we wished Saturday night because I was being horrible company because I feel like I was being eatten from the insideout, but we still managed to hit up a few more local pubs before heading back to our hostel (where should I mentioned we had a lovely time sharing our bedroom with 2 lovely gentlemen who had saved heads with barcodes tattooed to them!)
SUNDAY:
First thing we headed to Malihide Park and Castle, which was also another town outside of the city centre. We walked for about 20 mins threw this forest to get to the Castle and it was the best way I could think about spending a sunday.
We arrived at the Castle before it openned and had a nice chat with the people infront of us and then went for our tour. When we entered the castle it was raining but when we left it was beautiful so we retook all our pictures so we had a nice pretty blue sky in the background!
After that we went to the Old Jameson Distillary... the leading Irish Whisky. My stomach was feeling much better by this point so I got to enjoy a nice whisky/ginerale which I actually really liked considering I haven't drank whisky since I was in grade 10/11 (thank you Mark Kelders!). It was really nice tasting it had a hint of vanilla because the barrels they use have been used previously to make scotch (i think) so the taste is left behind. From there we ended our trip in Irelands oldest pub it was made in 1198! We took part in a great sunday session... they had a live group of men playing the fiddle and other string insturments, and it had a real fireplace as well. Sunday was a great Irish Day and a great end to a trip that flew by to quickly, it made me really want to go to other parts of Ireland and see what the country side is like!
Cheers
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