It’s amazing
that after three years, you can talk to someone like you just seen them yesterday! In
Dublin I reunited with Caoimhe, Maggie, and Jessie (for a short drunk bit). I
volunteered with them in 2010 for five weeks The Dominican Republic where we had
the absolute time of our lives.
I spent four
days in Dublin and stayed at Maggie’s. Which to me seemed like the typical
“Irish home”. Her house is in Monkstown, and just as it sounds it was
historically home Buddhist monks. Part
of Maggies house, still has a tower from one of the destructed monasteries. It
really was quite beautiful.
Another
reason I love staying with families.. dogs! Maggie had a wonderful black lab
named Fudge and I loved to walk around with him and just snuggle.
My first day
in Dublin we walked around downtown and saw the majority of the tourist sights.
We went to Trinity college, St. Stevens Green, O'Connell Street, Grafton Street, Temple bar, Dublin Castle, Butler’s
chocolate café (free complimentary chocolate!), The Porterhouse, etc, etc.
And of course by night, we did a proper
pub/bar crawl, as if anyone can drink, it’s supposedly the Irish ;) Maggie took
me to all of her favorite places, a bar with no name (only a snail), The Globe
(such good music!) and then Capital, where we met up with Jessie!
To be honest,
the whole of my experience in Dublin was spent in various sea side towns
sitting in a unique array of pubs and cafes hearing and telling stories and
reminiscing on past adventures.
Caoimhe had a
car, so we did two day trips. One day we went the lovely sea side Howthe, where
we had ice cream and enjoyed the sea. The following day, we went to Greystones,
outside of Dublin in Wicklow county, where we visited Maggie’s grandparents,
who were absolutely adorable and insisted we stay for tea. We then went to the
Beach House for lunch and drinks and then Mrs. Robinsons, where I properly
watched rugby and drank a Guinness. The bar had such a cool design and it was
so cozy, look!
I had such an
amazing time. It was good to see old friends.
