Dublin!

Greetings Fellow Americans,

So Dublin was awesome. We stayed in a nice hotel in Temple Bar for cheaper than some of our hostels have been. Mike´s friend Dominic who we met at Mike´s house, works in the hotel industry (Bono´s hotel in Dublin.) So he was able to get us a discounted price at a different hotel. It was gnarly.

So the first day we went on another free walking tour and learned some of the history of the city, it was good except that it was snowing, and superrrrr cold. Heather claims it´s the coldest she´s ever been in her life. Our tour guide was Garvan, or Gar. He´s from County Donegal, but he barely has an Irish accent, it was kind of freaking us out, or maybe just Heather. Then we walked around Temple Bar, and H noticed that the same sweatshirt she bought 5 years ago for 20 euro is now 40 euro. Lame sauce.

Next day we checked out the Guinness Storehouse, Heather for the third time, me for the first (because I´m not an alcoholic)... It was pretty gnarly. H said some of it was a bit different than the last time. The best part was the section that chronicled Guinness advertising. We were able to pick through a bunch of commercials and thought the "Brilliant" ads were, well brilliant. At the end of the tour we were able to find seats in the gravity bar, which the "alchey" said was a first for her. We enjoyed our complimentary guinnesses up there.

That night we met up with distant cousin Martin, the police officer and Mike´s son. He took us to dinner at an Italian restaurant then to a pub for a few beers. He was quite entertaining, had some good cop stories.

The next day, our last in Dublin, we went to the Museum of National History on Martin´s recommendation. It was cool reading about Irish history from way back in the day, and IT WAS FREE! The craziest part was a few ancient bodies that were pulled from a bog. There were lots of things still intact, like fingernails and hair. They were around 2000 years old, crazy.

And that´s about it for Dublin.

Later,
Maggie