...here's my quick and dirty review of our dublin trip. yes, we went in january, so i'm basically 2 months late. but at least i'm posting it on st. patrick's day, so it's relevant to today!
we flew to dublin from gatwick and getting there was a such a pain, since we were going with the commuters, so the train was packed. add to that, the fact that i was a wee bit hungover from the previous night, and you'll see why i wasn't in such a great mood that friday. anyways, we got to dublin, and i had to learn how to readjust my brain to comprehend english with an irish accent. they are so much more difficult to understand than the british. we basically settled in friday night, and planned our day for saturday.
saturday, we decided to take the dublin bus tour...except that it rained almost the whole day. but we had a good time and hit the most famous places, including the guinness factory. you've all seen mr. rude there in a's previous post. the factory itself was kinda cool, since the building was built after some building in chicago (yeah, can't remember right now. oopsie!). and yeah, we got a free pint of guinness at the bar at the top when the tour was over. whoop-dee-do. i will say i was enlightened when i put 2+2 together and realized that the guinness book of world records is also from the makers of guinness the beer! stuuuuuupid. (yeah, whatever...how many of you out there knew that??)
anyways, my friend aisling, who i used to work with at pwc, is from/lives in dublin, and she was kind enough to take us to a proper irish restaurant in the 'mountains' (and i use that term loosely), for an authentic irish meal and entertainment which included irish folk songs and dancing. yes, DANCING! the following is a clip that reminds us our favorite italian stallion's irish jig at his wedding last sept:
and t, we know you will watch this next video over and over and over again until you've perfected it. we look forward to your performance when we move back to chicago:
as for the rest of the weekend, we went back into the mountains sunday and took a tour of the wicklow mountains. very historic with lots and lots of greenery. it also rained on sunday, which wasn't a huge surprise. i would say dublin is similar to london, except that it's smaller, with lots more greenery. oh, and people with accents that are difficult to understand!
happy st. patrick's day!
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