So this past weekend Mary Jo, Jacqui and I made our way to Dublin! After getting off the bus we went on a mini-adventure trying to find our hostel. We wandered the streets of Dublin for nearly an hour before we came across Four Courts Hostel. We checked in to our 8 person dorm and after a few minutes of getting settled in, two of our roommates wandered in. We soon found out that we meshed quite well with Conor and Taylor and they became our new exploration buddies! After hanging out with them for a couple hours, we girls noticed something about their relationship - it's a total bromance! And we're talking on the levels of Cory & Sean (Boy Meets World) and Turk & JD (Scrubs). This Canadian bromance is one for the books and quickly became one of our favorites!
Friday night, while our new friends were recovering from jet lag, Mary Jo, Jacqui, and I found out why a pub crawl is called a pub CRAWL. We even got to go to Wheelan's - a pub that a scene in PS I Love You was filmed in! But don't worry we didn't go too crazy. We were up and at 'em on Saturday getting tickets for a 'hop on hop off' bus tour. The five of us went to some of the biggest attractions Dublin has to offer. We had lunch at the Temple Bar, took a brief stop at Trinity College, and hopped off the bus for a stop at the Guinness Storehouse.
We enjoyed a 'free' Guinness at the gravity bar on top of the storehouse. It has a 360 degree view of Dublin city - a truly incredible view!
Then it was back on the bus for a quick stop at one of Dublin's nicest parks and back to the hostel to get ready to go out for Halloween round one!
Well we had to be up and check out of our room pretty early. The thing about staying in a hostel is you can meet people who'd be great friends, but after a couple of days you may never see them again. After a sad goodbye to our awesome roommates, the three of us headed out for some more exploration of Dublin. We started off the morning going to the Jameson factory. Now on every Jameson tour 4 men and 4 women are chosen to do a whiskey tasting at the end of the tour. Now this tasting is made up of 3 different whiskeys. Add that to the free drink you get at the bar and you've got about 4 shots. Only one woman had volunteered to do the tasting (it was only about 1030 or 11 am after all) so the three of us figured - Why not? Unfortunately the meager breakfast of toast we had had did not hold up so well against all those drinks - So we figured it'd be prudent to head back to Temple Bar to grab some food. But now according to the Jameson factory, we are all three official Irish whiskey tasters.
After a lunch, we headed to St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin Castle, and made a quick visit to the zoo before we headed back to Limerick.
We had a truly amazing weekend - definitely one of my favorites so far! Despite how much fun we had, we were all ready to get back to Limerick and our own beds! Needless to say, we were exhausted. We hope to see our Canadian friends again as they travel around Ireland. But if not, we'll always have Dublin!
Until next time - With love, from Ireland!
Biff
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