We flew out Monday evening and arrived early in the morning in Dublin. Flight had some kids near us but otherwise wasn’t bad. I did finally get to watch “the Internationale” which was dark but enjoyable.
Our day was largely one of walking around and adjusting. We took the city bus into downtown and only had to walk a couple blocks to our hotel. After dropping off our bags we had an hour to kill until an early check-in and after talking to a couple shopkeepers got the consistent message that Grafton Street was the place to go to get a cell phone SIM card. While getting the occasional Shenmue flashback we followed their instructions and got our phone operational at a Vodefone shop. We then meandered back to the hotel and took an extended nap. (Side note: slideshow below is in reverse order).
We woke up late enough that we weren’t going to get much time at any exhibits. So we instead headed over to Bewley’s, a cafe recommended in our guidebook, and spent the evening wandering around southeastern Dublin. The city is a great one to wander, there’s many pedestrian thoroughfares and a lot of street level commerce. The Temple Bar district also has a notably diverse selection of restaurants. I don’t know if the number of nationalities it draws from is a result of trendiness or is common to the rest of the city.
[Update: Fixed slideshow so it points just to the day one pictures and not my overall photo stream. There’s enough pictures in that set alone.]
Looks quite nice so far! You guys are taking a lot of pictures, eh? ^_^
Posted by: Moti | July 08, 2009 at 11:11 AM