Two and a bit days in Dublin

16/12/07

Check in online, train to airport, board plane, sit where you like, yellow seats, tourist info, get bus tickets, bus to city center, very quick, check in @ the Charles Stewart, more than adequate.

Leave hotel, walk down O’Connell street, xmas lights, big spike, trams, turn onto river, walk past courts, follow search lights, ice rink.

Walk to temple bar, first Irish Guinness, Gallagher’s? Boxty House, delicious and unusual food, superb service, walk back to hotel.

17/12/07

7.30, get up, run, O’Connell street, left, riverside, docks, navy ship, offices, art in pavement, suburbs, traffic, cranes, toll bridge, lorry on its side, floating xmas village, cobbles, pedestrians everywhere, miss turning, Garmin saves the day, pick up paper.

Shower, sleep, breakfast, read paper, Biffy Clyro gig advertised, go to ambassador, ring bell, told to find ticket master.

Get on tour bus, yellow ones have commentary, get off at castle, castle tour, Georgie Porgy throne, Dublin named after shit pit, lunch, back on bus, funny Irish drives, mad songs and can’t understand a word, get off at Guinness store.

Collected Internet tickets, waterfall, grain, video guide, really interesting, tasting, corporate responsibility games and videos, trains and boats, gravity bar, amazing views, amazing pint!

Queue in cold for bus, get off at temple bar, bug concert tickets, get food – beef in Guinness, walk back along O’Connell street.

Early doors for Biffy gig, heavy support act, chatting to bouncer, he things the Welsh are ignorant, stood behind sound engineer, awesome performance, big beards, given gig track list.

18/12/07

Spent night being sick, really sick, couple of hours sleep, hotel lets us stay another hour.

Check out, check in for plane, stagger down O’Connell street, get to Grafton street, Molly Malone statue, sit in shopping center to warm up, duke pub, rest for a couple of hours, walk round park, Oscar Wilde’s memorial, head to river, warm up in shopping center, heavenly sofa, floating island, xmas stalls, helter skelter, back to O’Connell street, bus to airport, read book, sleep, fly home, plane early, make early train.

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