Parkway Guesthouse Dublin

... After being replenished, we explored the inside of the Garden which was absolutely beautiful! From finding the garden to finding a pub, we walked back through the side streets near Grafton St. I shared a pint of Guinness with Becky and Stevie had a Baileys! Becky and I were carded because apparently we look too young. We met some nice Irish men who were very friendly and we had a nice talk. One of ...

... The total was €48.35. I gave our new server a couple of euro for having brought out my drink. We got to chatting a bit and he asked us where we were from. When we answered “Virginia,” he was quite excited to tell us that he had once lived in West Virginia. He shared a story about the time when he went to a West Virginia University football game and observed groups of students making a certain hand gesture that looked an awful lot like they were flipping each other ...

... really high up. It was like a library straight from Beauty and the Beast! All the books are over 200 years old and aren't used anymore. There is a new library that students use today. Marble busts go up and down the room as well. The oldest harp to survive in Ireland is on display and it comes from the 15th century. It is constructed of oak and willow with brass strings. The harp is often used as a symbol of the Irish.

We sat on the steps of the ...

... named Carly. She is actually a friend of a couple guys I met while bartending in SF. I was telling them about my trip and they said that they knew her and she lived in Dublin. I gave them my email info and thought nothing more about it, however I received an email from them early this week asking if I was still traveling to Ireland!!!!(Talk about timing). They asked if they could still forward her my info and she ended up sending me an email! We ...

... around 5 Lukasz proposed the two of us should go down to Cork for the weekend. I of course said yes but I also realized that I was not sober and in desperate need of sleep, shower & packed bag which I told him. In the end (as usual by now more or less) after getting sick of listening to polish I decided to go home. Lukasz woke me up a coupld of times in the afternoon and told me to go back to sleep, so I did not go to Cork in the end but to be honest it was prob for ...

It's 7:30am and a free computer is free. Yesterday, I walked all around Dublin with a Brazilian guy, Eduardo that is studying in Germany. We saw everything and made out way past every church, into some FREE museums and to the other side of the city- the Guiness Brewery. In taking other traveller's advice, I skipped the 15 Euro tour! We just took pics ...

... to Dublin. I was exhausted from all the traveling, and the airports were super busy because of the holiday weekend. We grabbed a taxi to our hostel and pretty much just crashed and woke up early to start our 3 Day " Southern Rocker" tour of Ireland! We signed up for this tour because other people had told us they had a great time, so we thought we would give it a shot, too! There were 33 people from all over the world ...

... taking part in an famous version of the 'Full Monty' in Loughshinny two years ago, in aid of Cancer Research.
'Myself and my friends have been doing charity work for the last few years, raising money for the likes of Concern and we normally do a swim at Christmas anyway.
'This year, I asked them if they'd do if for my volunteer work in Africa and seven or eight of them will be doing it too.
'We're going to get up on Christmas morning with our hangovers and jump into the harbour.'

... with 1 window and some of then still had things carved into the door frames like "no surender" and "I cared". Next we went to Temple Bar and had lunch in an Irish pub with music downstairs. We shopped and then went back to the hotel. Some differences I noticed in Irelad : no bidets, very green, they use am/pm like we do not 6:55/18:55, bangers are sausages and they drive on the opposite side of the road - even the cars have the driving wheel on the passenger side!

... bullets were fired into the crowd. No-one has yet been brought to trial for the murders. And that's where the U2 song, Sunday, Bloody Sunday gets its name. There are loads of murals around the town depicting various scenes from the Troubles - some nice, some not so nice. Our tour guide on the tour was full of stories and tales and was really good at the history of the area. Ireland is an amazing country with an amazing and incredibly sad history. The suffering and sadness ...