Friday, September 6, 2013

now on to dublin

FINALLY.. i am posting the last two days of my trip to scotland/ireland.. there are no excuses as to why this is so late.
back to wednesday june 5th.. we landed around 930 am at the dublin airport. we got our luggage, hopped in a taxi and headed over to our hotel. check in wasn't until about 2pm so we left our luggage in hotel storage and we went out to explore. we started off at trinity college.
trinity college dublin campus 
 we walked around the campus for a while but there wasn't much going on since it was summer. trinity is known for its beautiful, historic old library which all of us would have loved to stop in and check out but it cost money to get in! i think it was about 11 or 12 euros just to get in and see the library. none of us really thought it was worth it. after walking around trinity we went down to show becky the temple bar area and then found a little cafe for lunch. we visited dublin castle - which was disappointingly closed for some EU conference or something. there was a helicopter landing pad/park that was right around the corner from the castle entrance so we parked our bums down for a while and just relaxed in the sun (with about 60 others who were doing the same thing).
we didn't really have anything specific planned so we just did a lot of walking around.. we went in some shops, some book stores and while doing so - hunted around for a pub we could go to for dinner that had some live music.
after dinner we discussed our plans a for the following day and called it an early night.  honestly i don't think any of us felt very safe staying out until dark in that city. it felt very different than in glasgow or edinburgh.. we thought it best to just stay in and relax.

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