Visitors in Dublin

I have had the pleasure of hosting 3 visitors this week. On Monday and Tuesday, Jai was here from Toronto and Ryan was here from Cork. Ry came to Dublin cause he had 2 interviews and also to meet one of his best friends, Jai. Jai had left Toronto at the beginning of October and has travelled to London, Scottland and now he's in Ireland. I had Tuesday off so I went sightseeing with Jai. We first went on a tour of Dublin Castle. It was not as exciting as it sounds. Dublin Castle used to be a castle but is now an administrative building. We saw the various rooms of the building including throne rooms and halls. The best part of tour was when we went underground to see what was left of the orginal castle. There is a river that runs under the building which used to allow vikings and others to bring their boats up to the castle. The walls of the castle were all smooth so that people could not climb up the side to attack. They also used to pour goose fat down the walls to make it even more slippery to climb....mmmmmm, goose fat! We also walked around St. Stephen Green which is a park here and Trinity College where the ancient book of kells is kept. We didn't feel it was necessary to pay 12 Euro to see a book, no matter how old it is!

On Friday, Carla, a classmate of mine, arrived in Dublin from Toronto. We had panini's for lunch and I took her on a tour of Temple Bar at night. We went to 3 different bars and Carla had a pint in each of them. At the thrid bar, we ran into my Italian friends and partied with them for a bit.

On Saturday, Carla and I did some more wandering around town going down random alleys and stumbling into food markets and such. Carla, being the party animal she is, wanted to go out again so we met up with her cousin's roomate downtown. Petra, said that there was a nice bar that she liked....turns out, it was Temple Bar, in Temple Bar. So, for the second time in as many nights, we went to Temple Bar. I stayed for a couple hours and then went home early......i'm such a party pooper. Carla is here until Tuesday when she heads for Cork so I have no idea what else she wants to do. It's also a bank holiday weekend here in that Republic of Ireland so everyone has Monday off!

Ciao for now.