Saying Goodbye Ireland

Well we took a few last minute pictures before jumping on a plane to England. We were heading to Newcastle, England (northern England) where Joel & Roxanne live. England here we come!

Wandering Around

Well we finished looking at Trinity College and wandered around a bit more and checked out another Cathedral. While on the way there was a lovely Irish man playing an instrument and so Joel thought we would try or really just pretend he tried. And Roxanne had to get a picture with their mail boxes because in England there red and Ireland green. Being Ireland though I guess that makes alot of sense.

Trinity College

Well the four of us stopped by Starbucks prior to heading to Trinity College. Joel & Roxanne had never tried a flavored latte before so Casey & I thought we would introduce them to the sweet dessert drink. Well Joel guzzled it down so fast that it was gone way before we got to the College and the sugar had already kicked in. He was hitting Roxanne up for hers by the time we got there. At Trinity College after the laughter had calmed down we went to take a tour the Trinity College Library where The Book of Kells was. This is an extremely old manuscript in Latin containing the 4 gospels of the New Testament I think it was copied by monks in like 800AD. We also went to another section of the Library where it had so many old books that were from wall to ceiling that it was incredible. You couldn't take a picture inside the library but Casey got one from the outside to try to give you an idea of it.

Last Day in Ireland - yummy traditional Irish food

Well our last day in Ireland we decided to make a full day of it and do as much touring of Dublin as we could. We wander around the streets a bit and went for a traditional Irish meal. Was it ever yummy!! I had the traditional Irish lamb stew and it was tasty! Casey was a bit jealous and wished he had ordered the same but I shared.....a little.

Starbuckies Ireland!

Well after our touring we went back to find a grocery store to make something for dinner. Not much around but we found enough to get by. When we got back to our hostel room Roxanne went to use the bathroom and when she walked in she turned around and walk back out to tell us that it looked like someone had used it while we were gone and forgot to flush. There was a phantom poo in the loo. We were all a bit weirded out but what could you do. So we headed for the kitchen cooked our wonderful meal. I had never seen blood sausage or hagass (no idea how to spell that) till we headed to the kitchen and I don't think I would it would be something I car to smell or see again. After dinner we then decided to head out to find ourselves a coffee shop. While the rain came pouring down & I mean pouring we of course found ourselves a starbucks. We spent a few hours there enjoying a few cups of coffee (casey maybe more then a few) and had brought Joel & Roxanne a few North American goodies. After that we headed back to our hostel through the Temple Bar area where it was in and wandered through some souvenier shops. We realized that at night is when that area starts getting busy as the people there like their late night drinks. After we wandered around for a little we went back to our hostel to make it an early night as we had a full day ahead of us the next day. We were planning to head to Cork as it was 4 hours away and we had a bunch of people tell us we must check it out. So we wanted to get up bright and early the next morning. We all got into bed and all of us fell asleep except Casey. He couldn't sleep (hmmmmm how much coffee did he have), so every few hours he would wake me up (not on purpose of course) and I would check if he was even sleepy and he was wide awake. Well about 3 or 4 am he got up to go to the washroom when he wakes me up to tell me the phatom poo was back! Well needless to say something was fishy because we all knew it was no ware to be found before we all went to bed. At 5 am I think Casey slept for 1 hour before we all had to get up and get ready to go and well he was our driver on the rental car. I little bit scary!

Our first day in Dublin

Our hostel room was very cozy as you can see with 4 bunks where you could almost reach over and hold hands. We had our own washroom which was nice...or maybe it wasn't our own we will tell you about that later. The only not so good thing was the kitchen was around the corner so with the variety of cooking that went on in there the smells were strong, but it did make it easy for us to go back and forth from cooking to our room to grab things. Right after we checked in and put our stuff in our rooms we headed to wander around and find a place to have lunch. We found a little cafe where we had soup and sandwiches and our coffee which was a constant tradition with us four. Yep even the English Joel & Roxanne we brought them over from tea to coffee while in Australia. Quickly we found out that Ireland even made England look cheaper in prices!