Day 2 in Dublin

I didn't realize how exhausted we were from the previous two days and getting up at 6am to catch a taxi to Dublin. We slept right through the night and when we awoke we already missed breakfast. Mind you at Globetrotter Hostel you would have had to pay €7 for a full breakfast which is €2 more than what you would have to pay at a cafeteria type place. We missed it both days since we didn't want to pay that much and headed out to the grocery store to just pick up food and fruit for €2 instead. Thrifty is the way to go.

First thing we did was head straight to the Natural History Museum since that was what I wanted to visit the day before instead we spent a lot of our time at the Trinity Library. When we arrived to the Museum it was closed it opened for three hours on Sunday from 2-5pm. Took a quick look around the park and saw all the local artists around Dublin setting up along the outer circumference of the park with all styles of art for sale. Remember if you want to see this it only happens during the weekend.

Oscar Wilde.

So we hopped back on the bus to head to the Guinness Storehouse where 3 million pints of Guinness are made per day! We bought our tickets online saving 10% and we got to cue jump, I definitely would recommend buying the tickets in advance.€14.85 online or €16.50 at the door and lining up, totally worth it. There were 7 floors to explore all the way from how you make Guinness,Arthur Guinness's life, how it grew throughout the world, general knowledge,adverts and finally the tasting of Guinness. There was an area where you would learn how to pour a pint of Guinness but we skipped that since Danny and I already know how. :P

Here is us at the top of the Guinness Storehouse 360 degree gravity bar, having our free pint of Guinness.

Hours later we finally made it out of the building through the vast gift shop and back out into the real world. I was super tired and again it was too late to head to the Natural History Museum, we will try again tomorrow. So I made the decision that I needed a nap before heading out again.

I awoke with a hunger and what better place than Temple bar area to grab a bite to eat, I couldn't decide where to eat in the end we went to a buffet for a more varied and economical dinner. A lot of what we have ate since we arrived in Ireland has been fried food so a Thai food buffet seemed like a great idea plus the price was right. €9.95 is pretty good since a burger without drinks is going to cost you about €12 a dish. The place we went to was called PANDA.

From there it was time to grab a drink! There were many places with live Irish music to pick from and we settled on Gogarty's. Got to watch some live Irish music and traditional dancing as well, even though I missed it since I was on the phone with peeps back home.

Back at the hostel we very coincidentally ran into around new found friends Sam from Amnesty. A fine day in Dublin!