After breakfast, we hopped on the double decker tour bus to get our bearings of the city. Naturally, we decided to hop off the tour bus at the Guinness Storehouse - it was after noon after all and we had yet to enjoy our first true Irish guinness. The Storehouse was pretty impressive. Here's a photo of me and Melissa in front of one of the key ingredients: water.
We also sampled the finished product at the Gravity Bar, which is located on the roof and offers a panoramic view of Dublin.After Guinness, we strolled past Christchurch and wandered through the Temple Bar area. Though the area seems to cater to tourists, we managed to have a good time and even heard some traditional music.
Exhausted, we cabbed it back to the hotel so we could have a nightcap and toast our first day in Ireland. We figured out that we'd basically been awake for about 30 hours with about a 3 hour nap on the flight over the pond, so we felt quite proud of our accomplishments on Day 1.
And what happens next? Hopefully we'll continue updating you daily, but we haven't been terribly successful with finding mobile access points. That means we'll have to rely on our lodging to provide internet access. I've also got to figure out how to streamline the uploading and positioning of photos. If any of you bloggers out there have tips and tricks, feel free to share!
Fun times! Blogger is finicky in terms of photos. I hate that you can't upload more than 5 pics at a time, and you have to open them one by one, at that.
ReplyDeleteTypically it's easy to move photos around, but the other day the photo-moving wasn't really working right. Also, the "preview" and "compose" panes don't reflect the finished product AT ALL in terms of page width. But I guess I shouldn't complain if it's free software, no?
Have fun and tell Melissa I said HI!!
Have fun! Keep us updated!
ReplyDeleteSounds like a great adventure thus far! Look forward to hearing more about that Guinness...Did it taste different? And, what do the Irish eat for breakfast? Was it good? You know I see with my tastebuds. :)
ReplyDeleteTracie - Thanks for the insight. Perhaps I should have played around more with Blogger before embarking on this adventure! We'll give it another go now that we're back in the land of internet access.
ReplyDeleteJaime - A full Irish breakfast entails: fried egg, baked beans, sausages, bacon (which really we call ham), tomato, black and white pudding. Don't ask what's in the black and white pudding... I've sort of been afraid to ask. Although, this morning, at our B & B, we requested the "full irish" and the black pudding was a far cry better than what we had in Dublin. I'm thinking it contains barley or some other oat. Will do some research.