euro trip day 11 - dublin day 1
September 14th, 2008 by shinzu
We woke up at 6am that day to leave from Prague to Dublin.
It was quite interesting to see a prayer room in the airport.
Ben and I thought it was odd that you couldn’t bring a wet battery on the plane.
Video of breakfast
We took ryanair to go to Dublin. Our flight was half an hour late, with a very strange check-in process. You would just line up, and it would seem like a free for all.
In the ryanair plane.
A happy dan off the plane. The trip was really short, only like an hour and a half.
Ben and Rob coming off the plane. What’s weird is you can exit the front or back.
Our hostel
Throughout the entire backpacking trip, this is the only place we would go hosteling. Here the security is pretty strict because you have to show your pass just to get back in.
Peter’s first task in the hostel was to get some food.
Our room.
We stayed in a four bedroom private ensuite. We had four beds and our own bathroom.
Our shower. The shower was erratic because you would push the button and water would come out for 20 seconds. The problem is when you push it for the first time, REALLY HOT water would come out at times.
I dont know why a cutsy water drop is giving me advice about conservation.
The infamous shower
To get into our room we had a magnetic card key.
My car in Dublin!
What was really fascinating at being in Dublin at this time was one of the big votes that were taking place over the “Libson Treaty”.
Vote yes!
Vote no!
Yes!
Hmm.. the sinn fein party. After reading some local papers I found out that the whole EU was voting for the Libson Treaty which effectively delegates more of the power to the EU creating a federalism type structure in between a country in the EU and the EU leader itself. Think of it as a United States of Europe so to speak.
The tradeoff of this would be that each country would surrender some of its national sovereignty in exchange for a bigger bloc with influence in the world. The result of this was Ireland actually voting no on this proposition which threw the entire proposition in a tizzy (all countries must ratify the treaty in order for it to pass).
We were on our way to the Gusiness Brewery where we all where musuem and churched out. We didn’t bother to see any of them on our trip in Dublin.
Even the love is abroad…
Gas is.. a lot? I tried converting this and it didn’t make any sense what so ever.
Ben and his mischief.
Jamba juice of Europe?
The equivalent of our 99 cent store? So this basically converts to $3.50 store haha.
Solicitors apparently are lawyers.
To Let is ‘to lease’
The brewery house was a good 15 minute walk away from our hostel.
Almost there!
We had tickets already from online so it was pretty quick to get in.
How gusiness is made.
Black gold baby.
The gusiness factory consists of 7 floors with each floor emphasizing some aspect of gusiness. At the top was a sky bar.
I have to say everything was extremely informative.
How the beer is managed
Tasting lab!
What is interesting is they have different types of gusiness in Europe. WE tasted the medium bodied gusiness to me tasted better than the usual one.
Foreign extra stout?
Gusiness north star brew? How come this isn’t in the US?!?
How they make the barrels.
We now crossed in the section of Gusiness marketing.
Picture of all of the stories going down.
You can write any notes and leave them on a wall.
Not exactly sure what Ben wrote.
This is where you can put any notes on the wall for historical purposes.
My note.
Pete in front of tons of beer.
Trying to make my shadow point to a direction hehe.
One of my favorite pics.
Guiness marketing stuff.
More ads.
They had a section about responsible drinking.
After the nice tour, we would go to the top.
Our admission gave us one free beer.
The beer would have to rest a couple minutes.
A very happy dan after lots of walking.
Pic of the whole bar.
It was sort of crowded so we couldn’t get to see and enjoy the view.
This is supposedly the highest point in Dublin.
Very creamy.
Beer review.
Another one of my favorite pics
Afterwards we went to Burdock’s which was near our hostel (fish and chips).
The prices weren’t bad at all.
We brought the food back to the hostel.
Food review.
After lunch we went into food coma.
I think Rob was taking these pictures.
Still sleepy at night hehe.
We proceeded then to walk towards Temple Bar which is a touristy area in Dublin.
Temple bar area
The weather was pretty nice that day. Not too cold.
Temple bar walking around.
Picture in between one of the bridges.
Leprechauns!
Asian leprechaun haha.
So that’s it.. we spent the remainder of our night hanging out at some bar. Tomorrow.. the last day.