First thing on the agenda was to buy tickets to tour the Dublin Castle, so right after breakfast we ran over to pick our time (our hostel was about three blocks away). Then we wandered to Trinity to College, and down a few streets just exploring. We headed back to the Castle at 1:40 for our tour which was amazing. We walked through a large part of the castle, but its still used as a government building so there were secret parts we werent allowed to see. Apparently the castle used to have a moat and everything. AND
Fun Fact: the castle was the only one that was never conquered because the only way to get into it to conquer it was through a tiny two-ish foot wide staircase that was SUPER steep and at the top you had to give a password to the door, and if the person at the top didn't like your password they would throw the door open which opened towards the stairs so that it hit the person on the stairs and knocked them all the way down the stairs. and let me tell you that I saw those stairs.. and if you fell down them, there's no getting up again.
After the castle we grabbed some lunch and headed to the Guinness Factory! We walked through the factory and learned how the beer was made and tasted some samples and then got to to up to the Gravity Bar which is a round bar seven stories up, and look out over the city!
Finally it was time to head out and find some dinner, which was easy enough, followed by a scoop of honeycomb and a scoop of sea salt ice cream. delish!!
DUN DUN DUN Irish Pub time.
It was so much fun I words cant even describe it! Every single person in that pub was just excited to be there, not to mention the live music that included guitar, fiddle, some sort of electric bagpipe, and multiple types of flutes (?) I'll attach videos so you can pretend you were there too.
Fun Fact: the castle was the only one that was never conquered because the only way to get into it to conquer it was through a tiny two-ish foot wide staircase that was SUPER steep and at the top you had to give a password to the door, and if the person at the top didn't like your password they would throw the door open which opened towards the stairs so that it hit the person on the stairs and knocked them all the way down the stairs. and let me tell you that I saw those stairs.. and if you fell down them, there's no getting up again.
After the castle we grabbed some lunch and headed to the Guinness Factory! We walked through the factory and learned how the beer was made and tasted some samples and then got to to up to the Gravity Bar which is a round bar seven stories up, and look out over the city!
Finally it was time to head out and find some dinner, which was easy enough, followed by a scoop of honeycomb and a scoop of sea salt ice cream. delish!!
DUN DUN DUN Irish Pub time.
It was so much fun I words cant even describe it! Every single person in that pub was just excited to be there, not to mention the live music that included guitar, fiddle, some sort of electric bagpipe, and multiple types of flutes (?) I'll attach videos so you can pretend you were there too.
Picture of the day: Guinness! Fun fact: Arthur Guinness signed a 9000 year lease in 1759.. so it won't be running out anytime soon.
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(Video's coming soon when my internet will cooperate to upload them)
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