There and Back Again
Posted by: David Bunch
We made it to Dublin today and now we're back in Gilford. We decided not to stay the night in Dulbin for the following reasons:
a. we failed to make any sort of hotel reservation online. this means, in the words of Eamon, that we walk into a hotel and the proprietor promplty notices we are tourists and says "hand me over all your money".
b. we failed to bring any of our belongings to stay the night.
c. we're exhausted.
d. Dawson is exhausted.
But all in all we had a great day in Dublin, down in the Trinity College area. We did find the statue of Oscar Wilde in Merrion Square and also saw Wilde's Townhouse there. So I feel somewhat compensated for the C.S. Lewis miss in Belfast.
I have conspired with Bradley and have sent him some pictures which he will try to post for me. Once done, I'll post another blog and explain each in turn.
Denelle, if I can find my receipt from the restaurant in Dublin I'll tell you the name of the place, but no it wasn't Mona Lisa near Trinity. This place where we went was just a block off of the River.
One funny story from the other day when we first went into Dublin. Matt turned down a street that we quickly noticed was a pedestrian only farmers market. But to get out of it we couldn't turn around. Oh no, not so easy. We had to continue on down that street and then turn up a pedestrian only shopping area. So we're going down this street barely missing pedestrians and I decide this would be a great time to start taking video footage as I'm riding shotgun. We were having all sorts of nasty words and gestures hurled at us, and so I decided that not only was this a good time to get video footage, but it would also be a good time to roll down the window and here everyone's cool Irish accent. No sooner do I roll down the window than we here a litany of swear words-but hey, at least they were in that cute Irish brogue!
Matt was promptly pulled over by a police officer (garda) who let him go with a stern warning.
Best of all, I have it all on video!
We made it to Dublin today and now we're back in Gilford. We decided not to stay the night in Dulbin for the following reasons:
a. we failed to make any sort of hotel reservation online. this means, in the words of Eamon, that we walk into a hotel and the proprietor promplty notices we are tourists and says "hand me over all your money".
b. we failed to bring any of our belongings to stay the night.
c. we're exhausted.
d. Dawson is exhausted.
But all in all we had a great day in Dublin, down in the Trinity College area. We did find the statue of Oscar Wilde in Merrion Square and also saw Wilde's Townhouse there. So I feel somewhat compensated for the C.S. Lewis miss in Belfast.
I have conspired with Bradley and have sent him some pictures which he will try to post for me. Once done, I'll post another blog and explain each in turn.
Denelle, if I can find my receipt from the restaurant in Dublin I'll tell you the name of the place, but no it wasn't Mona Lisa near Trinity. This place where we went was just a block off of the River.
One funny story from the other day when we first went into Dublin. Matt turned down a street that we quickly noticed was a pedestrian only farmers market. But to get out of it we couldn't turn around. Oh no, not so easy. We had to continue on down that street and then turn up a pedestrian only shopping area. So we're going down this street barely missing pedestrians and I decide this would be a great time to start taking video footage as I'm riding shotgun. We were having all sorts of nasty words and gestures hurled at us, and so I decided that not only was this a good time to get video footage, but it would also be a good time to roll down the window and here everyone's cool Irish accent. No sooner do I roll down the window than we here a litany of swear words-but hey, at least they were in that cute Irish brogue!
Matt was promptly pulled over by a police officer (garda) who let him go with a stern warning.
Best of all, I have it all on video!
