Dublin Walking Tour

Hey Again! Finally got some Pics up! We Went on a walking tour of Dublin and I tried to get pictures of all the neat things we say. Thee were so many it was very difficult though. Haha


This was the main street we stayed on, and our hostel was on an off street of this

 This was called the spire. It was super tall and we used it to navigate our way back, since you could see it from pretty much anywhere

                                                                                      This was the sign on a bank written on Irish.

     Here is the river that separates the two halves of the city. There are several bridges that go across and you can see one in the background.
   

 This door was on the post office. It was freaking huge. The people in the foreground are there for reference.

 And here is Trinity College from the outside.

                                              This was one of the tourism offices in Dublin.

 Here is another shot of the College 

 We went inside the courtyard are and were greeted with these next few pictures











And this little guy wasn't the leas bit afraid of us

In the center of the courtyard was this nifty little monument

This is the view up one of the busier streets we were on

I'm going to apologize for the formatting right now.... I'm still trying to get used to the Blogger system here.

Hey there! We finally made it to Galway today after two days in Dublin. I haven't had reliable internet access until today, so here it goes!!

My flight left from Springfield on the 30th of December. There were a few tears but mostly excitement I think.

 That was my first flight, So I was definitely a little jittery, and it didn't help that my neighbor was kind of a jerk. The flight itself was short and sweet and we landed safely in Atlanta.

I didn't get to do much there, or take any pictures, but it was huge. Not as terrifying as I thought. That flight SOOO long. I at next to an older gentleman from Ireland who was super nice, but extremely hard of hearing so we didn't really get to talk much. I read an entire book, and about a quarter of another before my kindle passed away, and the last three hours or so were just no fun at all.

We finally landed in Dublin around 6:30 or 7:00, I don't really remember really. When I walked through the gate I was greeted by two friendly Irish faces, Paul and Mark from ISA. Two other students from Boston had already made it so we sat and waited for the rest of us to show up, including the other ISA rep, Dermot, and we finally left the airport around 10:00. We took a double decker to Jim's Inn, where we stayed for two nights.

Our first night in Dublin was, of course, New Years Eve. We went out for dinner and then we were taken to our first pub, The Stags Head in Temple Bar. As I mentioned, it was New Year's Eve, so it was literally shoulder to shoulder inside so a small group of us broke off and went to another less crazy place. The others wanted to go to another, but my stomach was bothering me so I turned in.

The next morning we went for a walking tour of Dublin lead by Paul, Mark, and Dermot.

I think pictures will do better than words on this part but I'm having a rough time getting them uploaded so I will post them as soon as I can.
Cheers

Here you go!!

Hey everyone!
This is my blog for my upcoming trip. Hopefully I will remember to update it more than this one time. I will be leaving on December 30th, so be looking for posts shortly after that day.