Dublin Hilton

Visiting Africa and Europe.

... with.  I felt like dancing an Irish jig when I discovered they had them, and am delighted to once again discover that the Dublin Hilton also has them.  For those of you who don't know, it is quite common for European hotels to not have wash ...

... me up two hours late.  She swears that she was lost for two hours. :) We make our way back to the Conrad Hilton in Dublin, and it happens that they are still serving breakfast so I get my first look at this black/white pudding.  I try it ...

... use the saying "you don't come to Ireland for the weather".  Today was a travel day for us and we drove from Killarney to Dublin with a quick stop at the Rock of Cashel. As always, it rained off and on the entire time. I've never seen a country this ...

... all of the UCs in all of Ireland.  There were around fifty of us all together.  The orientation took place in the HIlton in Dublin, which is super nice.  I got there yesterday morning, and the first thing they did was give us chocolate- so ...

... of Meath.  Now it is housed at Trinity College in the library. Then we were turned loose for shopping in downtown Dublin.  Grafton Street is one of those places that is great for people watching.  You can see anything and ...

... sign, 'Welcome to Smokefree Frankfurt Airport'.  The flights took their toll, and we were glad to again hit terra firma in Dublin, Ireland.   We have a lovely apartment in central Dublin, and have begun to explore the town by foot.  It's a ...

... of the B & B graciously provided a huge breakfast before we threw everything into the car, wondering how we would arrive in Dublin by 1.30pm with a 2.5 hour drive ahead of us. For some reason, we decided to call the rental car company to ask if we ...

February Dublin Rugby Susan Michael and ourselves flew to Dublin to See Scotland v Ireland at Croke Park. We had no tickets; Michael managed to get hold of three leaving us one short. I said I would stay in the pub to watch it so did dad but Michael ...

... of music and dancing called the Merry Ploughboys.  Athena's friend Kristin recommended it.  We missed it when we were in Dublin earlier because we were standing on the wrong corner for our ride. We are excited.  We will probably do one ...

... the Merry Ploughboys.  We sat next too a nice couple from England.  Good music and dance.  We even drove from one end of Dublin to the other without incident.  We can now take the big L off the back of our  car and pretend we're ...

... in and out of Wicklow. Well then we spent the rest of our time driving through the construction zone that is the M50 around Dublin. What an annoyance! At least the speed limit was merely a suggestion. And the really good news is that we used up the gas ...

Europe Trip, 2008' We flew into Vienna from Dublin. Had a welcome drink and went to bed. The next morning we woke up early and drove to Budapest. We stayed here for two nights then advanced to Krakow, Poland. We drove trough Slovakia on the way. We ...

... good laughs.  Then we stopped off for another beer (Hobgoblin...the unnofficial beer of Halloween!!) before retiring to our divine Hilton room!! Monday morning saw us almost miss breakfast (you've never seen two girls dress so fast to make it ...

... pure cane sugar with corn syrup to cut cost.  This presented a dilemma for the little Dr. Pepper bottling company in Dublin, Texas where there original formula had been cranking out since the late 1800s.  Well not exactly, Bill Kloster, the ...

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... of control (in a good way).  I got up nice and early to enjoy my free Conrad breakfast (normally $25) thanks to Gary Ehrbar's Hilton status.  Plus I wanted to make sure to see all that Dublin has to offer in my one day in the city. I decided not ...