So here we are - its 16.1.2010 - And yes, I'm attempting to adapt to thier ways of doing things, using Meters, Celcius, and even thier format of using dates. And I'm finding that the states are really messed up! We should totally be on the same system that Europe as well as the rest of the country is on! Meters makes so much more sense - especially with the convertion to KM, CM ect. and Using celcius is so much nicer than fairenhight. And the date system makes it so it is counting up from the beginning of the year to the end of the year...much easier than the states...but Whatever.
Now As for Dubln! We flew out of chicago on Tuesday the 12th at 730PM at Night and got in the Dublin Airport at 830AM with around 4-5 hours of sleep - took a bus into Dublin City Grabed some money and foudn this really cool Hostel Called Abbey Court. They have Free Wi-Fi, A decent amount of free food/Tea and a Free Breakfest all for €10 a night - Which is pretty sweet!
So we crashed there for a bit - put our bags away and relaxed for a bit. Then after realizing that if we stay still for to long we were going to fall asleep at like 11am - which really would not help the JetLag so we decided to go get some food. We found this Local Diner Grabed a bite to eat and then walked around a bit before hitting the...
Dublin Walking Tour
Dublin Castle
Which was also - Free and Awesome! haha. We were able to go to the Dublin Castle - which is one CRAZY Piece of archetecture! It had all sorts of different type of brick involved and then halfway through the external wall just decided to go to all sorts of multi-colored primary color patches. Kindof hard to explain - however I'll load a picture soon so you guys can see! Also the Statues at this Castle were quite(As the tour guide put it) "Pathetic". There were two - however I only took one photo for whatever reason. It was the Blind Justice Statue, and it was fun to hear our Tour Guide ranting about this one! First of all that statue did not have a blind fold, kind of ruining the point of the name of the statue and the symbolism behind the statue, Secondly It was pointed in at the courtyard of the castle (Where all the hearings would take place) and apparently that statue is supposed to be a symbol to the people and having it facing in toward the people DOING the governing was a huge mistake, then Lastly the scale that she was holding was a working scale so the scales are ALWAYS changing because Dublin gets a decent amount of rain.
And I'm sure he ranted on about some other aspects of it - but its been a few days and I dont quite remember.
Coffee Shop/Temple Bar
Then after that the tour headed to this local coffee shop - where we all got coffee/tea. Although it was quite awkward because it was quite a small shop and we had to fit ALOT of people in. But we got our drinks then headed off to Temple Bar.
At temple bar - which is a location within the city where there are alot of touristy bars, its not actually a bar - we really didn't do much in that area except the tour guide told us about a pub crawl sponsored by the touring company that was happening that night.
Trinity University
Then we walked through Trinity University campus and talked about the architecture of the place and also the Book of Kells that was kept at the University as well at the "Long Room". We also talked about a good bit of the history of Trinity University.
Oh - and it was a beautiful day
After the Tour was done we(Nathan and I) Went on a tour of the book of Kells and the Long room for 8 Euros - which looking back on it it was probably over-priced but oh well. After that we went back to our hostel - relaxed a bit and enjoyed ourselves.
C(No photos were allowed in that room so I dont have any :( Sorry! )
Dinner
That Night we went to this place called Seomra Sprao (Sp?) Because a guy from Couch Surfing Invited us to have a Vegan dinner. There were a bunch of people there and we were just relaxing and this guy named conor came up to us and showed us around the place, we had food, and played some games then went back to the hostel.
(For some reason I didnt get any photos of this place - I guess I didn't want to look to much like a tourist in front of everybody)
Hostel : Abbey Court
(Which as a Sidenote there is this hostel in Dublin called Abbey Court in Dublin and it is only 10 Euro a Night(For a 12man dorm) as well as it has free: Breakfast, WiFi, Computers, and Luggage storage. It was really nice. We were really tired so we went to bed around 9. I slept like a rock for those next 3 hours. Then I woke up at 1 AM and couldn't fall asleep. I was stairing at the top of bunk for a few hours and then finally I got hungry, and went downstairs made myself a PB&J or two - used the computers then went back to bed. I finally fell asleep at like 4-5, then we woke up around 11 - unfortunately missing the first free breakfast.
(And no mom - I didn't take photos of the places I stayed either - sorry - that is just plain to much documenting)
Well yea - don't expect this thoroughness for each day - That would be insane!
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