Dublin

Dublin has to be one of, if not the, most fun city i have ever been to. There is always something to do, amazing people to meet and things to see. When we arrived, Erica, Jordan and I went to our hostel, The Abraham House, which was terrible, we had like no water half the time lol. We checked in then wanted to go explore the city a little, even though it was late. So we went to the Temple Bar area, which is like the most famous area to go out in Dublin, there are just so many bars and people it is just a lot of fun. We went to the actual Temple Bar in Temple Bar and hung around there for a little bit, and knew we were in for a good time. We went back and went to bed because early the next morning we were going on a tour of the Irish countryside, i was so excited! We woke up and met our tour group and got in a bus and began our journey. It was soooooooo cold, wow, i'm so glad i bought that coat. It was incredibly beautiful though. We started going up through the mountains and stopped at a point overlooking Dublin which was beautiful, kept going and stopped at certain points along the way like lakes and amazing views. One of the highlights was the stop at lunch, it was like one of the best lunches i've had since i have been in Europe, it was traditional Irish ham and cabbage with potatoes and it was just delicious. We were in a little town called Lauragh and it was such a nice little Irish town, it was cool to be able to see a little town and the big city of Dublin. After, we kept on our way and stopped at a view overlooking the lake where Guinness gets a lot of their water to brew their beer. That was pretty cool, oh yeah, and beautiful haha. Then we stopped at the biggest destination of the tour, Glendalough, it was a really old town that used to be a monastic settlement and it was a beautiful place. We got to walk through some of the ruins and see the churches and everything. We then took a walk along the two lakes right by there and it was amazing. There were just two lakes surrounded by mountains the view were amazing. We walked the trails for a while, headed back, got back in the bus and made our way back to Dublin. That night we met up with Mark and Marica. It was awesome seeing Marica again, and mark and being all together was so much fun. We went back to the temple bar area and hung around for the whole night. The next day we walked around the city and saw Trinity college, which has to be the nicest campus i have ever seen. We went to see the other sights of the city, St. Patricks Cathedral, Stephen's Green, which was a beautiful park, and other cool sights, like the opera house. Later that day we met up with our friend Caitlin and one of her friends and we walked around a little then went back to our favorite temple bar and partied some more. The next day we went to the Kilmainham Prison, which held all the famous rebels during the time that Ireland was fighting for its independence. We saw all the cells and got a history on the rebellion and it was really interesting. After that we got to go to the Guinness factory and that was really cool, it was just a giant museum that showed the history and how Guinness was made. The next day we walked around a little more, and Marica and me saw the new James Bond! It was pretty cool, seeing a movie in a different country, and i hadn't seen one in so long! So we explored a little more and later that night we caught the bus back to the airport, and now we were on our way to London! Dublin was amazing, such a fun city and the people in Ireland were even more amazing. First of all their accents are incredible, but just their attitude and how they approach you is so welcoming. It was really cool, and also one of the coolest things was being in an english speaking country, and seeing english sign, reading english menus and talking to people in english. It had been like 2 months since i had that so it was pretty awesome. Yeah, Dublin was pretty awesome.