Dublin Day #1

10/22/07

Today we left Edinburgh in the afternoon and flew to Dublin. Thank goodness we finally had a short direct flight! And again, they didn’t charge us for the extra luggage and the overweight luggage (the UK only allows 1 bag per person and we have 2 each), so we are thanking God for that!

When we flew over Scotland, it was so beautiful. It was like a quilt of beautiful green and some beige patches sewn together by dark green tree stitches. We can’t wait to drive across Ireland when we go from Dublin to Galway and from Galway to Belfast.

When we got to Dublin, we walked down the street a bit, but otherwise, we were pretty lazy and didn’t feel like exploring. We are getting pretty tired of sightseeing, so I don’t know how much we’ll be seeing of Dublin (definitely the Guiness Brewery and the castle, but not much else). Dublin is quite a large city with possibly as bad of traffic as DC. We’re glad we are only going to be here three days because we aren’t much of city people. Hopefully Galway is smaller and more intimate.

So we hung out at the hotel bar, which had live music, until it closed around 11. We went up to our hotel room and realized that, not only are we directly above the night club below, but it sounds almost as though we are in the night club. So needless to say, I didn’t get much sleep last night. I guess we’ll have to join them if this continues.