Dublin, first update :)

Although, the Internet is damn slow, here comes the first update:

So far everything went pretty fine, the flight was nice, we have GREAT weather (not the standard in this time, cold but no rain!) and the beer is as good as expected ;)

First day, we were basically heading to our youth hostel (pretty nice!) and walking around in the city center, enjoying our time and testing the first Guinness in a real Irish pub and falling asleep afterwards. It's kind of strange, you work hard the whole week, trying to get all the stuff done, that has to be done, drive to the airport, 2h later you are in another country, all the work behind you and just 5 days in front of you, no plans everything just spontaneous. But it's great, I start loving Ireland, the people are so friendly, they have 700 pubs inside of the city, that's just amazing. They really know how to enjoy their time!

So far we have been walking around in the inner parts of the (compact) city, visiting a very interesting, traditional university in the heart of Dublin with a very old, beautiful library and some fascinating books that are over 1000 years old, with beautiful drawings. Amazing, that they survived all the fires and other dangers...
Yesterday we visited the Guinness brewery which was a fascinating experience as well. Although it was very, very touristic there, we enjoyed the exhibition and the Guinness in the so called "Sky-Bar" with an amazing overview over the whole city and the sunset at this time was just great. And the beer was good as well ;)
Today we got deeper insights into the production of Irish whiskey at the Jameson distillery and I got a official certificate as a Irish whiskey tester, since I was one of the volunteers to try 5 different whiskey brand to get to the insight, that Jameson is the best ;). But don't get the impression we are only studying how to produce alcohol and test it afterwards, we mainly enjoy the time here, get to know nice people (the youth hostel is full of them, although most of them are French :P) and just have a great time. Tomorrow we will go on a tour to the countryside to see more of the Irish landscape. I am really looking forward to this, seems to be a great place for hiking as well!

But for now, that's it, we have 2 T-bone steaks waiting in my back bag to get cooked, with tons of other great food and I am already starving, so time for doing something for my stomach. See ya!

P.S.: Photos will follow when we are at home, the Internet connection does not even let me think about pictures.