Travelodge Dublin City Centre, Rathmines

Another beautiful day in Dublin - we have just been so lucky with the weather!

This morning we headed off to Fairley Park - which is a large mansion, just at the top of Pheonix Park - the mansion is the property of the Irish Governmet, but was origionally bought and renovated by the Guiness family. These days it's used for visiting heads of state. The grounds are just beautiful. Sadly no photos inside (security reasons), but it was just ...

... over there. They didn’t have any clocks for sale, but they did have the adapter I was looking for on sale for only €10.00 (what a deal!). I asked the clerk if he knew where I might find an alarm clock. He seemed puzzled for a minute, and then suggested I try the camping supply store near Clarendon Street. Although I wasn’t sure of the logic in his suggestion, I decided to go ahead and try it. What can I say? I’m open to the power of suggestion. We exited ...

... told that the rate has come down a bit and it is an employer's market right now. Just what I needed to hearJ By the end of that week it was not looking very positive for me getting office work soon, so I decided I had to change tactics as I needed to start earning some money. So I changed my CV around a bit and on the Friday I went by foot around the Temple ...

... GBP25!! As soon as we arrived in Dublin we all took a liking to it... for one the people were half was decent looking compared to what we'd already seen. We checked into our hostel and went for a walk about the streets, went down Temple Bar and listened to some local music and checked our the bars. One was called "Boomerang" - guessing this was an Aussie bar. Dublin is EXTREMELY expensive! Even buying ...

... the top ten list - and it sounded traditional so we were immediately very happy, we were also greeted with warm wooden walls and dim lighting and lots of friendly locals. The first floor had a bar and some tables - already full - so we went up to the next floor and found two bars and lots more tables - already full. It was on this floor the band was playing, sort of; two staircases lead up to a mezzanine with one of the two bars, in between these staircases ...

... is an awesome place to see. A nice mixture of an urban capitol city with plenty of greenery and history. The cool thing also is that there are several day trips that you can take from Dublin to see all kinds of stuff outside of the city. One thing to watch out for in the pricyness of every thing. Although Ireland uses the Euro as their currency, they pertain to the United Kingdom which is one of the most expensive places to visit in ...

Keep to the Left! I was in Galway last weekend, which is on the west coast of Ireland. This girl named Lauren and I (who I met at the Hostel) rented a car for the weekend and did a little road trip on the west coast. So great, and all typical road trip stuff...only with an Irish twist...like stopping in the middle of nowhere for Irish stew, stopping for cows to cross the road and driving on the left hand side of the road for the ...