Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Ireland - part 2

We met Niamh in the center, had my hair cut, walked to her dad's place (which was under reconstruction so there were no concerns about trashing it:-) Walked around Dublin, saw the Trinity College and the center, had a sandwich...Dublin is, well, cant describe it in one word:
- they drive on the wrong side of the road
- the traffic is absolutely disastrous
- therefore crossing the streets was a royal pain, I always looked at the wrong side, thought it was clear, and almost got hit by traffic coming from the other direction on several occasions
- the buildings are 3 floors high max
- it mostly grey or brick red
- people everywhere
- its small (well the center is)
- their traffic signs and everythiing is in Irish first, then English (An Lár, City Centre)
- the Irish are fun
- I was walking down the street, listening to the people: "Watch out you fucking gobshite wanker!!", "Aah piss off you cursethegod fuckin eejit of a knacker!!"... folkolore everywhere:-)
- their beer is nice, cheaper than Paris, I tired real Guiness (tastes different than anywhere else), Murphy's, Oyster (brewed with oysters) and Brain Blasta
- there's construction everywhere!
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Anyway, in the evening we took a bus to Tom's mom's place, took a shower and drove to Waterford to meet Tom's Spanish friends who study there. We went out that night,  had loads of fun.
Saturday morning Tom showed me Waterford, made Shepherd's Pie, and I left to Dublin to meet Niamh. Sarah got on the bus in Carlow so it wasn't too boring:-) After dinner at Niamh's, we went out to these posh places, but I didn't spend a cent since the girls (especially Sarah) got all the guys to buy drinks for them, and they passed them on to me, haha. Just for the record, the typical Irish girl is not to be touched by a 10 foot pole, they're ugly:-) Well the girls got really tipsy and we had to go home.

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