Dublin reloaded

After a few days of geeking for university I am back on track and therefore have some time to write my Dublin report. Although I already wrote something about Dublin I will summarize the whole time and shorten the parts I already reported about. Here we go....

Our travel started on Thursday 16th at the local (Malmö) airport. It was the first time for me flying with only hand luggage and therefore the Check-In was a bit faster than usual. We even passed the strict (and stupid) new luggage checks. The flight was my first one since London 2002(?) and I enjoyed it. I hope I will never get used to those feeling when the plane starts to accelerate and you get pressed in your seats. It love it!
After 2 hours, we finally arrived in Dublin and saved our first money by taking the normal public transport bus instead of the tourist-express bus. I really was surprised how cheap the bus was (only 1,7 Euro, for a one way ticket, compared to the 15 Euro we payed in London). Really nice! The first thing I realized when we arrived in the center was that we are back in urban life. People all over the streets even at night, shops open during the whole night, noise, lights and a frightening amount of traffic. I felt a bit like a culchie (Landei - lustigerweise ein irisches Slangwort..) coming from Lund to the big city of Dublin ;). But anyway, we searched our youth hostel and found it only 5 minutes away from the center of Dublin, left our luggage there and went out for a first exploration that showed us that the reality is even better than the posters. Enjoy:


As mentioned in my first Dublin post we visited the Guinness brewery. It was both interesting and very touristy, but the student price was fine and the Guinness in the so called sky bar was awesome! The Guinness brewery was the biggest brewery in the whole world since about 1960 but is still one of the biggest. The area of the whole factory in Dublin is unbelievable huge and covers a whole district of Dublin (more than 240.000m2, you have to see it to realize how much that is). Even if you don't like Guinness, you will love it when you are there! It really fits perfect to the cold weather and of course it is a lot better there, than everywhere else. Especially in the Sky bar!

on the way, to the brewery...

Finally, the view from the Sky bar, astonishing isn't it?

It's really filled with Guinness!!!

The second "alcohol stop" was in the Jameson distillery, again one of the worlds most famous distillery's. The funny thing was that they asked for volunteers at the beginning of the tour. Those volunteers could compare different Whiskey's with the help of the tour guide, that explained why they taste so different. And guess who volunteered? Hehe, yeah it was me :D

a whole lot of different Whiskey's...

...the old distillery...


...some of the barrels that are used to store the whiskey...

...and a vessel that is used to distill the whiskey...

...the five different whiskey's...

...our funny tour guide...

...Brice an I drinking another Jameson on our tour to the national park of Wicklow...

Since I don't want to strain you (and me..) too much, I will write the second part in the next days, with newer stories and other great pictures