Dublin is the Ireland's Capital and a very nice city.
The most important to see in Dublin is:
- The Guiness Storehouse (the Guiness beer's Factory)
- The trinity College (a part of the University of Dublin)
- The Molly Malone's sclupture. It's not sure that she existed, but she's a very important legend in the city.
- The temple bar, the pubs town and the most characteristic town of the city
- Christ Church
- Phoenix park
- The Spire (the light monument) It's a monument of 120 meters of hight in O'Connell Street.
14th of december 2007
Today we have to wake up very early, but it's for a very good cause: Dublin is waiting for us!! We meet at my home and then Jose, the Javi's uncle takes us to the airport by car. We pass the save control, and we seat in the plane, that departures in a few minutes. During the flight I study very attentively the guide book to know better what to do and what to see, mi sister is studying, Ana tries to sleep and Javi is listening his Ipod. After almost three hours, we arrive to Dublin. We see the landscape from the plane and it's just the same image we thought: so green and full of cliffs. We do the firsts photos. Te day is horrible but at least it doesn't rain.
To be a little city, if we compare to Barcelona, London or Paris, there is a lot of traffic, and although the airport is near, we take more time that we thought for this reason. And here's the first anecdote of the trip: we can't find the hotel although the GPS is taking us towards there. In the street I see a man walking and I decide to ask him. I ask "Please, can you help me?" and he, with all the calmness in the world, say "no". The face that I have has to be very funny, because the man starts to laugh and tell me "sorry, I was jocking" and very nicely he explains us how to go to the hotel, which is very near. What a curious people, the Irish i think...
It's 3:00 o 'clock in the evening and it's getting dark, but as we are close to Christmas the city is full with beautiful lights and you can breath a special ambience. We start to cover the down town. We go across to the O'Connell Street and we stop in a Subway to eat something. Then we walk throug Henry Street and we see a Penny's. It's a very big shop with a lot of clothes and we take a look. Javi buys a coat, because his has broken and it's cold. Then we enter in the Temple bar town and we see the Ha Penny bridge, beautifully illuminated.
After to see differents Irish pubs where people don't stop to drink pints, we buy some souvenirs. And here we have the second anecdote of the trip: in a shop where we were buying souvenirs, mi sister asked for a price. The boy who was working in the shop answered and was very expensive for she, so she said "mother fuck!!" Then, he started to speak Spanish, while he was laughing. So we start to laugh to and to speak. He was Spanish too and was very funny.
We keep walking by the streets and see the Molly Malone's statue, the Trinity College and other buildings. It's 7 o'clock and we don't know what to do, we can't visit anything, so we decide to come back to the hotel. After having a shower we go down to dinner something in the hotel's bar. The receptionist is also Spanish and we speak a lot of time with him. Ana drinks a Guiness, but the rest don't like the beer, so we drink other things, like Coca-cola and water. Then it's late and we're tired, so we go to sleep. Tomorrow, more.
We keep walking by the streets and see the Molly Malone's statue, the Trinity College and other buildings. It's 7 o'clock and we don't know what to do, we can't visit anything, so we decide to come back to the hotel. After having a shower we go down to dinner something in the hotel's bar. The receptionist is also Spanish and we speak a lot of time with him. Ana drinks a Guiness, but the rest don't like the beer, so we drink other things, like Coca-cola and water. Then it's late and we're tired, so we go to sleep. Tomorrow, more.
