Temple Bar Loft Apartments
Travel Blogs from Dublin
A soft landing in Dublin
... We are on our way to pick up the rental car now, so I will be brief about the rest of the sites. We saw the ancient university, Trinity College, St. Stephen's Green (Oliver ate here, too) and two churches,Christ Church Cathedral and St. Patrick's. I believe one of them was founded in the 1050's, which blows my mind.
Oliver is a great little traveller thus far. He slept through the night both nights in Dublin, although he is still going ...
Top of the morning to ya!
... the hotel (Definitelyworth the 80 pounds a night now it feels). We take a taxi to temple bar, this taxi driver…a darn sight more lifting than the last. Our escort from the Guinness factory could not understand why we had come to Dublin, arriving the day after a gigantic football match where everyone was out partying and departing the day before Arthur’s day , ‘d’ best day on d’ Irish calendar. He advises us that the weather has been glorious ...
Scariest Boarder Crossing Yet
The flight from Heathrow was very pleasant and picturesque. I was seated with two Brits on their way to Dublin for work and we spent a pleasant hour and a half chatting. Then, the border crossing of doom. To give the immigration Garda officer the benefit of the doubt, the woman before me was a ditz and had no return ticket. Given that she only planned on being in Dublin a week (I was listening in...sue me) and was flying on ...
Final thoughts from Europe / Pensamientos finales
... mini-museo, con algunos de los equipos viejos de 100 años. Tenía la esperanza de ver más de los modernos equipos utilizados para preparar la cerveza oscura famosa, pero no tenían ningún en exhibición. Los orígenes de la Guinness se remontan al 1779 (? La fecha exacta), y todavía utilizan la levadura original utilizada por Arthur Guinness, que supuestamente es el ingrediente secreto! Mantienen una pequeña porción en la caja fuerte, por si acaso pasa algo, y ...
Walkin' the Streets of Dublin/Stupid Dubstep
... mid 1900s. The walk was nice and I got to see a little bit of the older buildings in Dublin intermixed with the newer modern developments. People on bicycles here are quite bold, I also learned. No one wears a helmet and they dive in and out of traffic with the cars seamlessly. It is definitely not as well laid-out regarding bike travel as say Seattle, for example.
I went and visited Kimainham Gaol and it was only 2 Euro as a student. One can only go to the jail ...