Ireland 2009

Ireland 2009


We were all looking forward on travelling to Ireland. With Andreas' ukelele and a very nice busdriver, we got to our hotel late Monday night. A couple of us went out for something to eat, and had a nice meal in the Temple Bar- Street, right beside the hotel. That night, i sleepwalked out in the hallway, into a closet. That was kind of scary, but no worries. I made it back to bed. I was looking forward to the next day, when we were visiting the jail.


Our hotel is in the picture




Tuesday 27/10: GETTING TO KNOW DUBLIN



Stian, Kris, Mikkel and I went out at 9 o'clock to get some breakfast and got some eggs and bacon at a place called “joy of coffee”. After that, we took a sightseeing- bus to a jail in Dublin, where we had a guided tour. It was very interesting and the guide was very nice. He told us facts and the history of the prison, and we learned a lot.
After the jail-visit, we made it to McDonalds(they have it in Ireland to!) and ate lunch. Later, we went on a guided tour in Dublin. Our guide was a former history-student at Trinity College. He told us a lot about Dublin's history, but after 90 minutes standing up, it got kind of hard listening to his fast-talking lecture. We were tired and went back to the hotel and slept for 2 hours.
In the evening, we went on a pub-crawl with Andreas.















Two musicians played some Irish music for us in three different bars. I enjoyed this very much, and the artists were really good.
We didn't eat dinner that night. Instead, in a desperate hunt for fish n' chips, we made it to “Abrakebabra” where I ate some fries. They were not good.



Wednesday 28/10: BELFAST


We took a bus to Belfast. It took us 3 hours to get there. We were guided by three men who had experienced “the troubles” and were former IRA members. Our guide had sat in jail for 16 years, accused for killing a police-man. We started off in Millwall cemetery, where Guiseppe Conlon and the hunger-strikers were buried. After this, we watched some Gaelic Football and had a nice meal.
We drove to the street “The falls”, where we walked from the top, down to the tower where the Englishmen were settled during “The troubles”. He told us about the walls dividing Belfast and about how it was back in the 70's, how the Englishmen treated them, divided them and decided what would happen. This was very interesting, especially coming from a man with the very experience.












Then we went on to the Parliament of Northern Ireland, Stormont. A very nice castle and a nice lady who talked 30 minuted about the governing in Northern Ireland. I think this was the most interesting on the whole trip, because I really wanted to know a little more about the government in Northern Ireland. We were sent to the halls in the parliament, where they decide the laws for the country. We also got to see the room the Englishmen used during the World War 2.
We went back to Dublin after an exhausting day in Belfast, but it was the most interesting day!





Thursday 29/10: ENJOYING DUBLIN





After eating at the “joy of coffee” once again, we headed for the Viking Museum. This was an interesting museum, and we got a lot of good pictures taken. After the Viking museum we walked through the whole city, at least it felt like we did. We saw the statue of Oscar Wilde and Andreas read us some quotes. It was kind of a cosy-time with the boys + Ida of course, since she knew the way and Andreas didn't. We ate lunch and went shopping before we went betting on dogs. The Greyhound dog race was a couple of miles north and I lost a lot of money. This was really cool, though Jacksonair was the slowest dog of all time!


On friday, we went home!

Thank you for a wonderful trip with a lot of fun stuff to do. Digged it!

Magnus<3>