We booked flights to Dublin about a month ago, and the Ryanair we were able to get round trip tickets for only $50!! Gotta love cheap student airfare, haha!
We left Thursday the 18th and stayed til Monday. While flying Ryanair may have been cheap it was sure hard to compress our luggage enough to be able to carry it on, cheap airline = extremely small carryon limit, but thankfully we were all able to pack strategically and all of our bags made it on the plane. Upon arriving in Dublin we found our hostel, where we were in an 18 bed mixed dorm. Meaning that there were 9bunk beds and people of all ages, it was..interesting to say the least. After settling in we decided to check out Dublin's nightlife in the famous area known as Temple Bar, here is where all the traditional Irish Pub's can be found with THEE greatest traditional Irish music. We really enjoyed ourselves, as we felt we were living out scenes from P.S. I love you, haha.
We started off day two in Dublin by visiting Trinity College, here we saw the Book of Kells. Which is an illuminated manuscript in Latin, containing the first four gospels of the New Testament, transcribed my Celtic Monks in the 800's. We also saw Trinity College's Old Library and the Long Room, containing thousands of rare books. Another overwhelming moment, but unfortunately no pictures so I stole some from google.
Day three in Dublin consisted on visiting Christ Church which contained an ancient crypt, very eerie. Rumor has it that Bram Stoker, visited the crypt to draw inspiration for his book Dracula!
After this we made our way to the Guinness Factory, where we toured the factory to see how Guinness (the fuel of Ireland) was made, ending with our complimentary pint of Guinness in the Gravity Bar (the highest point in Dublin + a panoramic view, beautiful!)
Day Four in Ireland was...Epic.
The seven of US girls decided to take a day trip out to the Irish Countryside, greatest decision we've made thus far. Our tourguide started off by taking us along the coastline, where we saw seals and even some old men taking a swim on an ever so cold day.
Our guide then took us up through the more "posh" neighborhood's in Ireland to see Bono and Enya's house, both were very pretty. Although I know that Dublin is one of the most expensive cities in the world I was suprised to learn that a house for a mechanic or tour guide (as our guide told us), is upwards of 350,000 Euro! Almost half a million dollars, so naturally my dreams of one day living in Dublin were ruled out immediatly.
After the coast we were off the to see the mountains in Wicklow National Park. Where ps. I love you and Braveheart were both filmed. It was the most breath taking scenery and I can promise you the picture do not do justice to the beauty we saw on Sunday.
To conclude, Ireland had kind people and beautiful scenery, and I absolutely fell in love with it. Can't wait to go back!
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