Apologies for taking so long to post a little something about Dublin. Been a bit distracted with work lately. It's unfortunate that work gets in the way of my personal life sometimes :)
Eric had a work trip scheduled for the 7th and 8th of March in Dublin. He had some meetings with local clients and then was "forced" (tough life) to take clients to one of the biggest 6 nation rugby matches - Ireland vs. Wales on Saturday the 8th. Knowing that he would be set up in a nice hotel and his meals would be paid for, I decided to tag along for the weekend.
I arrived in Dublin on Saturday morning and got really lost trying to be thrifty and walk from the train station to the hotel. Big mistake. It took me 45 minutes to get to the hotel which was approximately 1 mile away. I am really quite bad at directions. I spent the day wandering around Grafton Street and O’Connell Street shopping (for myself and for Lesley’s bachelorette party.) It was nice to finally save a little money by purchasing in Euros as opposed to Pounds. In fact, I really took advantage of it. I was quite exhausted after 3 hours of shopping so I went back to the Westin where we were staying, took a shower and decided to curl up in their comfy robes and just lounge on the “heavenly bed” for the next 3 hours! Eric and I ventured out to dinner later on that night and had a really hard time finding a place that wasn’t booked due to the rugby match.
Dinner was at a place called Bleu and still not sure what type of cuisine it was. It seemed to be a mix, but good none the less. We were pretty tired and ended up just going back to the hotel for the night
Sunday was almost a repeat of Saturday. We spent most of the day just wandering around the shops. We decided to stop again at Trinity College because it was directly across the street from our hotel. Eric also had an interest in seeing the Book of Kells but it was still 9 Euros, and if you know Eric, you know he was never going to pay that kind of money to look at a book.
In the early evening we visited the Temple Bar area because we hadn’t properly looked around the on our first visit with my family last summer. And, a lovely looking restaurant caught our eye so we went in. It was absolutely terrible. The food was overpriced and just not good. It was called Bruno’s. If you ever are in the area, don’t go there.
We tried to get on an earlier flight back to London due to the impending monsoon, but no such luck. However, our flight was on time and we arrived back home around 10:30 that night.
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