Monday had finally come. After i was done packing I set of to Stabekk vgs, where our buss was waiting taking us to Torp Airport. There we took rynair to Dublin. We arrived our hotel late at night, so we rushed out to find something to eat. After dinner we went back to our hotel rooms so we could get a good night of sleep. After a long day of travelling Daniel and I slept like babies.
Tuesday Daniel and I decided not to eat breakfast so we could sleep a little bit longer (not healthy though). We met Andreas and Ingse outside the hotel, and walked as a group over to the sightseeing bus. First stop was Kilmainham Goal (Jail), a historic place were a lot of Irish people were arrested. Our guide was a good talker so we all thought a lot of interesting history from the jail. The jail was also the filming location for the jail scenes in the movie “In the Name of the Father”. After that Aleksander, Nikolai, Daniel and I were so hungry that we got some pizza at the first restaurant we could fine. There we sat for about an hour, before we had to meet up at Trinity College for a “get to know Dublin”-tour. So we jumped on the sightseeing bus, which showed us a lot more of Dublin in only an hour. Since the buss took a while we we’re therefore late for the tour, and we’re sorry for that Andreas. After one and a half hour with an historical guide about historical events and buildings in Dublin, we got very tired. On our way back to the hotel we stopped by an American restaurant and bought milkshakes, which where very good. Instead of joing the pub-crawl, Daniel, Stian, Nikolai, Aleksander and I went to Hard Rock for dinner.
Wednesday we woke up and ate breakfast. Today we where going to Belfast in Northern Ireland. After one and a half hour with bus we stopped at a sad shopping mal. No real cool shops, kind of a sad place. The next one and a half hour Stian and I sang Michael Jackson’s biggest hits, which were lots of fun. Finally we arrived Belfast. There we met our guides, which were former IRA members. They took us across the street to Milltown Cemetery, a graveyard with over 250.000 buried people. The guide sowed us beautiful graves covered by flowers and other accessories. We got to see Bobby Sands and Giueseppe Conlon’s graves. After we put flowers on Conlon’s grave we ate lunch. At lunch we got a menu with lots of options. I ate ribs for starters, chicken for main corse and chocolate fudge for dessert. The food was delicious. After lunch we watched gaelic football for a couple of minutes. We took the buss and drew down to the republican street. Our IRA guide told us all the horrible things that happened in this street and tells us he sat in jail for 16 years, accused for killing an English police officer. The street had huge paintings of Bobby Sands and Frederick Douglas. After the tour we all gave the guide drinks and went back on the bus. Stormot Castle was our last stop in Belfast. The North Ireland Parliament is located in this castle. After we went through security we met the woman that was going to guide us. She thought us a lot of history from the castle and showed us a film on how they vote for important decisions. After a very interesting visit the sun went down and the darkness came through. The castle gave us amazing view over Belfast, a beautiful city. We decided to go home after a long day instead of spending an hour in Belfast. When we arrived home we went out to eat at Hard Rock again. And then that day was over.
Thursday we woke up, ate breakfast and went to the Viking museum. At the museum we got a paper with ten questions that we finished quickly. I took a lot of cool pictures with my camera and we walked through the church. After the museum we walked over to the pub, which we were eating lunch at. On our way we stopped by the freaky store American Apparel, which had a lot of cool rave cloths. Because of all the cool cloths we just forgot about everyone and everything, so Andreas had to come and find us. We then lost the rest of the group and could not find the way to the pub. But we found the park with the statue of Oscar Wilde. Stian and Magnus started climbing on the statue the same time as the security car came. They didn’t get in any trouble though. We took a group picture and Andreas read some quotes Wilde had written. After that we had to find the rest of the group, so we started calling around. Eventually we found the way to the pub. We ate a good lunch and had a good time. We got a few hours of free time before the greyhound race. To the race we took the sub way and walked a couple of blocks. When we arrived the stadium we decided which dogs we wanted to bid on. After four races and no wins, we gave up and went home. Back at the hotel we met Ingse and the rest of the group that didn’t go to the race. We walked together up to the restaurant we were going to eat our last dinner. We had a lot of fun at the dinner and ate great tasting food. After dinner we went back to the hotel. Packed and ready for going home the day after.
Friday Daniel and I woke up. Ate breakfast at a bagel place and jumped on the bus back to the airport. We arrived in Sandefjord late that night.
I had an amazing trip. We laughed much, learned a lot and made some very good memories.
Thank you Andreas and Ingse for a successfully trip to Ireland, which I won’t forget.
- Joachim
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