3rd of June
Woke up around 8:45 am and got downstairs
to a mob of people swarming over the complimentary breakfast- oy vay! After
waiting for our turn at the toaster our next mission was to find seats.
Everywhere was occupied, even the lobby was full! Luckily I spotted Tom (from
Australia) and Julien (from Hamburg) at a table finishing up their meals and I
quickly asked if they were leaving. Score! So Chris and I sat there while Sami
and Logan found spots in the lobby.
Afterwards we went to a free walking tour.
Paul, our Irish guide, was a stitch and a fabulous tour guide at that. Paul
kind of reminded me of my old resident advisor from last year, just funny and
had lots of stories. Random things that I learned on the tour were:
At the Castle of Dublin, the statue of
Justice has the blind fold off, and with the hand that isn’t carrying the
scales she carries a sword. The sculptor had made her hand cover one of the
scales so when it rains heavily the scales are off balanced!
Then we went to the gardens just on the
other side of the castle which were stunning and also works as a helicopter pad
for when people like the Queen visit.
Also went to a church where he told us
about how a British organ player found a key off when playing and asked the caretaker to fix
it, next thing he knew the care taker pulled out a dead cat. So the British
organist sat down again at the organ and began to play again. Once again the
key fell flat with a thud. “Caretaker, could you fix this please?” and then the
caretaker pulled out a dead rat. Instead of disposing the creatures, this
cartaker decided to stuff the dead cat and rat which is still on display within
the church. After the tour we tipped him and had a Guinness mash (steak and
potatoes) for lunch.
Outside there was a formula one race going
on- it was so loud and watching it wasn’t too interesting since I could only
glimpse split second blurs as they drove past. It has been cold and rainy today
(~10°C or 50°F). I suggested that we go to the history & anthropology museum.
It was great and I learned a lot of the Irish history on the Vikings
occupation. After that we went to the supermarket where we got groceries for
our lunches tomorrow and ingredients for our pasta bake dinner tonight.
We booked a day tour to see the Cliffs of
Moher tomorrow (got to get there at 6:35am!!) so excited to see the natural
side of Ireland tomorrow.
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