St. Stephen's Green Dublin

Pani, pripadam si najednu stranu jako Pretty woman, teda az na to s tou prostituci a partnera:) Nicmene moje hostfamily me vzala do Dublinu od ctvrtka az do patku a jsme ubytovani v nejhezcim hotelu v Dublinu spolecne s hraci rugby. Tuhle sobotu se tu kona velky zapas mezi Irskem a Argentinou, takze behem te doby, co oni budou namahat sve hlasivky …

When thinking of my study abroad experience prior to coming here, Ireland was definitely on my to-do list. However, it was not a priority of mine. I was most excited about seeing Spain and Italy. Then, some of my Marquette friends decided to visit for spring break, and picked Dublin as their destination. Its …

Today, we were to be checking into our new digs at the University College Dublin. A bus was going to pick us up at 10 AM. I got some breakfast across the little walkway from our hostel at a place called the Granary Café. Again, it was awesomely protein rich.

We got to the bus and it took us to UCD. However, someone at the KU study abroad …

On the 3rd Shawn and I headed from Rome to Dublin. After we found our hotel room and cleaned up we quickly found a pub for dinner because it was raining. Since it was still a little early, we headed back to our hotel room before going out for the night. We decided to take a nap at from 6-7. At 7, Shawn told me to set another alarm for 7:30. I told …

Okay - so I lied. There's still more to post about Dublin.

My friends Guilia and Kim left this morning, as the Congress is over, but my Dad swung by the hostel and we've been hittin' up the city as bona fide tourists. *Insert general gurgling noises of disgust*

However, t'was quite fun. We had booked a tour of the countryside to …

The weekend of Jan. 20, a group of six of us went to Dublin to celebrate our friend Gonzalo's birthday! He has seen a lot of Europe, but Dublin was one of the cities he had yet to visit!

Dublin was amazing! The food and the people were awesome, as well as all the sights. We even got nice weather - two sunny days, although it was still …

We have made it to Ireland safely! Our 7 hour flight went quicker than I imagined even though I never slept. We arrived in Dublin at 8a and made it to our apartment around 11a (5a - Minnesota Time). I was exhausted and just wanted to sleep... but, our apartment wasn't going to be ready until 2:30p! So we put our luggage in lockers and began to …

My day started with a walk along the Grand Canal, which is directly out the front of our hotel in Dublin, leaving Stuie behind to do his own thing. With no firm plans for the day, we set out late in the morning from our hotel, on foot and let our internal GPS have it's way.

We had a lovely stroll around St. Stephen's Green, a beautiful, …

We had a lovely night's sleep... thank goodness! Liam woke up maybe twice in the night and after some milk went back to sleep quickly. Once we got up we had a lazy morning in our apartment around the breakfast table. We were going to meet up with Aidan's dad's 1st cousin, Dermot, around lunchtime so we decided to head into the city center for the …

Since we were finally able to sleep last night, we were actually functional today. We started the day with a free breakfast from the hostel at 7:30, including a generic-brand version of nutella, bread, jam, butter, peanut butter, cereal, milk, and coffee. After finishing, we wandered off in search of St. Stephen's Green.

We ended up coming …

... the morning he, Jana, and I did some of the 'hop-on, hop-off' sightseeing tour and checked out Trinity College and St. Stephen's Green. After that, Sean headed off to catch his flight, so Jana and I spent the rest of the afternoon together. We watched a ...

... hostel-provided breakfast (from what I've been told, it'll all be downhill from here), I walked through Dublin, visiting Trinity College and St. Stephen's Green. I'm still adjusting to the whole 'not being busy' thing. A number of times today I've ...

... too spicy), posed at the bridge for a woman who was taking a bunch of official looking photos (weird), walked a ways to St. Stephen's Green, stretched out on the grass with hundreds of others, and slept for about 20 minutes.  On my way back across ...

... , a student yelled out, "Go back to England you British bastards!"), shopping for pottery in the Kilkenny Shop, dodging rain in St Stephen's Green, and then finally we made it to the new offices of Wilson Hartnell PR. I was rehearsing my line to the new ...

... ever had. That, and our waiter was very attractive, so that's always a plus.  After wandering for a while, we stumbled acorss St. Stephen's Green. We had walked to shopping district of St. Stephen's but not the park. It was a pretty park, with a lot ...

... . But so gorgeous to be able to sit outside on the grass in the sun. Soy latte in the sun St Stephen's Green Shopping on O'Connell Street Some statues along O'Connell Street After some more shopping, we headed back to the ...

... the taxes to the country.  After we relaxed at Christa's for a bit, she took us out to show us around and we headed to the St. Stephen's Green shopping area. St. Stephen's Green is a park but along the street that it is on, there is a complex of ...

... ." Me - "Yup."  Oh the simple pleasures. We were pretty zombied out after our fatty fish meal.  We walked around St. Stephen's Green and then decided to head back.  So here I am... updating you folks.  =) I asked Chris if it was weird ...

... hotel, on foot and let our internal GPS have it's way.  We had a lovely stroll around St. Stephen's Green, a beautiful, huge park in the middle of Dublin, complete with quiet corners, fountains, 2 ponds full of ducks, swans and other bird-life and ...

... day was more interesting. We wandered around the Trinity College area, and then we spent the later part of the morning in St. Stephen's Green, the largest park within city limits in the world (in other words, it's even bigger than Central Park). We ...