Jacobs Inn Dublin

So we were up early this morning as stated in the previous post, get everything organized and walked around the area of our hotel which was near the airport to kill some time before we had to go pick up our rental car. Called a cab and he took us to the area where all the cars are to be picked up and there was no Enterprise desk so we drove a round for a bit trying to find it and just decided to try another company because we couldn't find ours. We got dropped off at the Hertz desk and waited...

We woke up early this morning and got on the first open-top hop-on hop-off bus tour of the city. Brandon and | decided that we would do one full loop before choosing what to do and we got to see some great sights in the city as we made up our minds. Fisrt stop for us was Dublin Castle. We got into the grounds, looked around, tooke a few pictures and decided that we would probably see enough old furniturein France that this place might not be worth the admission price or our time - we had a lo...

December 24 Come on, hurry up!! Let's flee from Christmas with family and all that hypocrisy! I was wishing to go to Ireland for years and now it's my opportunity. My friend and I arrive at Dublin's hostel at noon and the first thing we do is going to a supermarket to buy food. People told us that Dublin was a specially expensive city, so we'll try to avoid spending the most. We equip us with pasta, tomato sauce, yoghurt, bread, nutella, bananas and beer cans and now we are ready to wipe out ...

Foley woke me just before 4am - just enough time to pack my bag, clean my teeth, change and g. Ange picked us up and we were on our way to Dublin. It was a beautiful sunrise but as we were doing 100km/hr and needed to get to the airport there was no stopping to admire. Ange's boyfriend had dropped some of the girls bags on the side of the road so when we spotted the fence, the sign and the workers jacket we know they were hidden behind the bushes nearby... hilarious! We parked the car in the ...

I was up just after 8 for a shower and then went downstairs for some scrambled eggs. At the end of the street from the hostel is a tram stop - the trams here are exactly like the ones in Melbourne - as soon as I heard the ding ding ding I turned around and smiled and thought I'd be hearing that sound in a few days. I bought my tram ticket and hopped on for the ride to the Guinness Factory. I was there just before 10am and the queues were non-existent (also thats to a pre-bought ticket on-line...

I am coming towards the end of my stay in Ireland now and I will probably cry a little when I leave here. Irish people are the most generous and friendly people you'll ever meet. I left off in Cork. So I spent a nice leisurely week at my friend James' gaff (irish for house) with his wonderful family. He lives outside cork in a small town called Crosshaven. This town sits right on the biggest harbor in Ireland with loads of colorful sailboats old and chipped and shiny and new, bobbing on the w...

Well im all settled in.I'm going to be here for a week, might as well get comfortable. I took a taxi here luckily it wasn't to far so my fare was around $20, and breakfast was $5.Sounds cheap but thank God for McDonald's dollar menu. I'm going to get sick of McDonalds but now that m actually IN Dublin i'll start eating irish foods. Well with only $2,296 left lets see what I could do for today...

Well today being sunday and yesterday being my birthday,I decided to go to church today. So i brought out my big tourist street map, which by the way cost me $8 at the airport, and set off on a taxi to Christ Church Cathedral. It is Dublin's oldest building! It was built in the elventh century. It's ad when these places become attractions. I had to pay $6 to go to a church! Last time I checked I go to church for free every sunday. Well if you don't count the dollar I put in for the offering, ...

As much as I disliked Dublin for its big city, Americanized feel, it really was a really fun city. We arrived at the Dublin airport at 5:30 a.m. and once we got our belongings together, we boarded the bus to go to the city centre. As we got on the bus it started raining-our first experience of the glorious Irish climate. American moment #1--we boarded the bus to go downtown and put all of our luggage on the racks and sat down (which took a grand 5 minutes) and once we had finally sat down the...