Days Hotel Park West Dublin

... spent the first few days taking it easy and mooching around. Will got to catch up with most of his family as they started to drop by for visits. I took the kids on little adventures to the local shops on the double-decker Dublin buses.<br><br>The highlight of our first week in Dublin was getting to see Leonard Cohen in concert. At 72, he is still an amazing musician and artist. (Apparently he lost all his money to a dodgy investment advisor, so in his 70's he has had to go back on the ...

... in Temple Bar (clearly an ode to the Boss), and later that night one of the busiest places in Temple Bar had a long Irish name, but a huge American flag out front (above a number of other flags) and was filled with American parafanalia. It really just looked like a Boston bar to me, and Temple Bar kind of reminded me of the area around Fenway in Beantown. <br><br>There are really a lot of ties between America and Ireland, and we are generally held in a pretty good light in ...

... to this I received a &#8220;What-in-the-hell-are-you-smiling -at?&#8221; arched-eyebrow stare, a barked question &#8220;How long are you staying!?!&#8221;, and 3 loud &#8220;WHAP!s&#8221; as the officer slammed the ink stamp down on our passports. I moved along, muttering to myself, and then turned back and offered a ridiculously cheerful &#8220;Have a nice day!&#8221; just to **** him off some more. I hope it worked.<br><br>Our luggage was already cruising around the baggage ...

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... una macchina e puntare verso sud, verso i villaggi di pescatori, le foreste, i castelli, e soprattutto verso le scogliere spazzate dal vento e verso i fari. Aspettativa altissima nei confronti dei fari... gia' immagino di trovarmi in mezzo a paesaggi visti in indimenticabili fotografie, che tante volte mi hanno fatto sognare di poter essere fra quelle mura, in mezzo a quelle onde. Non vedo l'ora!

We'll nothing starts your day off like waking up at 5:30 in the AM! Crashing so early felt great but unfortunatley the ol internal clock overrid the alarm set for 8:30. So by 6 we were up and going. We headed downstairs, so as not to wake our bunkmates, to use the computer and get check emails. Got that out of the way and some good old fashioned blog writing in we had to make a phone call home to verify some bad news about a very dear family ...

... in Missouri...and no one else came up. Our musicians shared a couple other tunes, information about where we can go for more traditional music, and told us about their cd, which I bought. I decided to approach the two men at the end and asked them if they could sing me a song that was appropriate for children - the one man had to run to a gig but the other was able to spend a moment and sing a verse for me, which was really nice. Now I have quite a ...

... en la casa es bastante pequeña y el carbon medio extraño, no funciona como el de allá. Vinieron varios amigos de willy, estaban los housemates de willy y su NOVIA. Nos cayo super bien. La novia lo re quiere, se nota y willy está contento. La noche del año nuevo en Dublin, nada especial. Nos fuimos a una fiesta en un pub, pero muy tranquila. Nos tomamos ...

... street pattern, with many narrow cobbled streets. It is Dublin's cultural quarter and has a lively nightlife that is popular with tourists.There was a bar called "Temple Bar" that was very fun, but extremely touristy... We actually headed out when Nandita started identifying more with her 'Indian' rather than her 'American' heritage - that scared me.. This morning, we slept in and then headed ...

... though it must be said that my two guests did need to be constantly reminded of the house rules. I think I should have started chain smoking, been on the look-out for a quiet and submissive spouse and be more argumentative at 3:30am in the morning over their interference in the running of my very own &#8216;good house&#8217;.