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 | apdelong |  | Europe 10.0 |  | Seeing Duble |
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At the second bar Alex and I sat upstairs with a Brit and a Canadian in the group and got to know one another a little. They convinced me that in France I just need to remember, "Par evu Ingle?" (Phonetic and probably horribly misspelled)
Alex and I sat down and chatted keeping pretty much to ourselves at the third bar; nothing much to it.
At the fourth bar there were beer pong tables set up. Alex and I played 10 cup against our new found friends with silly accents using their rules, which would make anyone from Elon cringe. Every shot had to bounce once and you could lean over the table as far as you liked. Of course Alex and I won being from a superior country and all, but it was close.
We made it to the final destination of our crawl, a club packed with Spanish and Italian girls. But by this time the rest of the night was catching up to me, and I couldn't really enjoy the scene. After my drink I told Alex, "I'm going, you can stay if you want." I turned around and left without waiting for a response. I made it back to the hostel in one piece, Alex however, left several minutes after me and could not find his way back and took a cab.
On Thursday we went out to a pub called The Porterhouse that produces its own beer. Some had entertaining names such as Brain Blasta or Wrassler. They had a live band that played everything from Stevie Wonder to Queens of the Stone Age, to Prince, to the Beatles and were quite entertaining.
Friday we went out into the city during the day with the intent on going to the Guinness Storehouse. We first wanted to see what else there was to see in Dublin that was not alcohol related. There was a Leprechaun museum, but at ten quid it wasn't worthwhile considering it was really small. Alex wanted to go check out the wax museum and I headed to Dublin castle. I interpreted the signs I saw as saying the only way to see the castle was to take a guided tour for €3.50 and I didn't feel like following a guide. So I left and explored the area and found some cool stuff. When I got back an hour later to meet back up with Alex he said he got in the castle and showed himself around for free. Oh well.
We then headed to Guinness. It was one of those walks where you know you are close, but you never get there. The storehouse was neat, it had exhibits on how the ingredients are grown, harvested, and brewed to make beer. On higher up floors the storehouse went more in depth into Guinness advertising with adverts and commercials everywhere as well as any type of merchandise one might think of. On the top floor was the "Gravity Lounge" with a 360 degree view of Dublin where you get a free pint for finishing the tour. We left at closing time which was around 7pm and went back down through some of the building taking funny pictures with one of the attractions and then acting out the end of the Luke/ Darth Vader lightsaber fight in Return of the Jedi by the exit.
Alex wanted to go eat after we left and I wanted to check out some more attractions in the city so we split up. I ended up getting incredibly lost and to make things worse I really needed to go to the bathroom. So I went where I thought I needed to go, but eventually had to ask directions back to the City Centre. On my way back to the hostel I went through a shopping district and ran into a Burger King to relieve myself. I made it back in one piece and made dinner.
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Written by apdelong 33 months ago
For this entry I meant to put in that there were several very identifiable people who lived on the street and would rotate positions around the block druing each day. There were also numerous pubs on each block the majority of which did not serve food at all. It was very hard sometimes to find a pub that had food, and even then the menus were limited.