Ireland is beautiful although our journey here was not so fun we had a little drama before our super early morning flight from Edinburgh, to put it simply ryan air tries to scam you for money in every way which makes many inconveniences for fliers, but hey it is cheap so can't complain too much .
We have finally experienced RAIN! but fortunately for us it hasn't been too bad just mostly the weather acting "bipolar" aka itll be sunny and great and then even while its sunny just start raining for a bit, then maybe pour for a few min then be over...but the plus side of this is the RAINBOWS! we have only been in Dublin for a day and a half and we already have seen 3. Yesterday there was a double rainbow and today a huge single rainbow.
We lucked out and our hotel/hostel ended up being great location right on eden quay by the o'connell bridge and near south dublin. Because we are going to be in Ireland for a whole week we decided to start slow and took a nap when we first arrived so we could rejuvenate ourselves. We then just took out for the streets and wandered around. The only real "tourist" thing we saw was Trinity. We also made our way to the classy shopping street and through our "window shopping" (although I did end up with my first large purchase...but i promise it was something i have been looking for for the past year so it wasn't impulsive) we stumbled upon a healthy market kinda of mix between whole foods and trader joes but for cheap and they had delicious prepared salad type things with grains and what not that we got for cheap dinner. We then decided to pic nic our dinner at Trinity where we witnessed a GORGEOUS sky with all the clouds and setting sun colors and just amazingness.
Our goal in Ireland (because we are not staying with local students like in Edinburgh) is to make more friends however due to the tourist nature of Dublin our attempts at this have landed us with making friends from Germany, US, and London oops. Any way we met our first friend while we were at Trinity and then were there for a special night out door photography exhibit they are currently having which was awesome to look at, some really spectacular pictures.
Also because were in Ireland we decided we needed to go out and explore the "pub" culture. We spent the night at Temple street enjoying all the live irish music in the bars and pubs, making jolly friends, and trying our first pint of Guiness (although Erin and I prefer the Irish Cider Bulmers).
Today
After having a casual morning of coffee at a cafe we took the "suggested" route our dublin guide book (thank you kathy kelley!) had for south-west dublin. An impromptu rain storm ended us in a free national irish photo gallery exhibition they are having now of historical pictures that was pretty cool to see. Then looking at the postcards there for sale of some of the historical pictures erin spotted one that had a bilboard in the background that said "....use Alie" spelled the same way I do! After the rain let up a little we continued to Christ Church Cathedral - the oldest in ireland, such cool history associated with it.
Continuing on the route we stopped at Dublin Castle and after seeing castles in Scotland decided to skip the tour and paying to go inside for now..maybe at a later date. Walked through a cool inside covered market where we met a local photographer selling his film work, each of us got a sweet deal on just a print copy of his picture (rather than framed or on a board) and he took a portrait of us with it! Also found a delicious little bakery stand and got cupcakes for our new hosts we were to meet tonight.
Made our way through cute alley ways to St. Stevens green where some london boys started up a conversation about my camera and convinced us to do an impromptu photo shoot at the park! We had to leave soon after to make our way to Greystones Ireland where we now are staying at Alan Maxwell's with his family. Him and his wife have graciously welcomed us in and we are enjoying a break from cramped spaces and being out a little more in the country along the coast in a small town. Also his daughters are so cute! Jessica- Mai - 8, Nicole- 2 and the baby christian we haven't met yet.
Can't wait to bike down to the little one rd town tomorrow and walk along the shore and see beautiful countryside!
Thats it for now (except I'll upload pictures next)
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