Schlagwort: Dublin

Leaving On A Jet Plane

Now it has come, the day of departure.

After leaving the brightly polished house in a taxi taking us to Europa Buscentre (which is actually only a 5-minute walk away), we bought our bus tickets and got ready for a 2 hour roller coaster ride back to Dublin Airport again, where we are now sitting and waiting for the pilot to start in the direction of our beloved hometown Berlin.

To soothe you: I have not turned on my iPhone in the plane right before the start to post this. To be honest I wrote this post yesterday and scheduled it to be published today right at the time our plane is planned to departure to Berlin.

Finally, to make a connection to the title, enjoy the legendary song:
John Denver – Leaving on a Jet Plane

Pack the bag…

It’s the last day in Dublin and we were pretty busy with packing all stuff together into our suitcase. Good that I bought a lagguage scale a few weeks ago because the guys in Dublin didn’t had any so they borrowed the one from Josephine and me. I hope I won’t forget anything. Our dinner today was made totally easy. I made a Quesadilla, not typical irish but tasty and it’s made in less than 15 minutes.

Last day at IMEC

Today was my last day at IMEC. Vincent had some problems with his laptop again which made me laugh. I repaired a Psion Teklogix 7535 which had a broken scanner engine. All in all I had a lot of fun with the colleagues. There was so many things to do that I was really busy in some days. All people in there were really cool and relaxed. The way to the company took me about 1,25 hours with the Luas and the Dublin Bus. Too bad that Jason is in his holiday at the moment else we would had gone into a pub for lunch this day.

Dublin visit

Hi guys,

on Saturday, we have visited the capital city of Ireland: Dublin.
The day started 7 o’Clock with muesli (like everyday). The bus started 8 o’Clock from the Europa Bus Centre in Belfast.
After the arriving in Dublin we have as the first visited the GPO (General Post Office). Of course have we also seen the amazing „spire“ beside the GPO.

After a small lunch we are gone in the „Phoenix Park“, a very big park in the middle of the city.

Then, we have done a small excursion in a famous prison of Dublin. It is named „Kilmainham Gaol“. It was very interesting to see, how the people previously captured were.

At the end of the day we have drunk a farewell beer in a traditional pub in the „Tempel Bar“-quarter.

Best regards from Belfast
Benjamin

Bank holiday in Dublin

Today Josephine and myself went to the Grafton Street but sadly we didn’t know that there was a women marathon today. The street was totally full of people. When we saw a wall of people we stopped and searched for a way around the crowd. By the way there was a shop which sold ice cream. After a while we found a gift shop. Josephine bought some postcards. I don’t wanted to buy something there because I wanted to go to Carroll’s. The biggest souvenier shop in Dublin. All in all I noticed that not every shop is closed on a bank holiday.

Trip to Dublin

Yesterday Benny and myself decided to make a trip to Dublin. I’ve only seen the Dublin Airport at the arrival. So we had to visit Dublin for a longer time. We started the journey at 8 o’clock in the morning. Fortunately I could sleep in the bus. 2 and a half hour later we arrived at „Dublin Busaras“. At first we visited the GPO (General Post Office) and the „Spire of Dublin“ a 121 metre height pin-like monument. After this we went hungry to a little diner, where I ate Fish and Chips, that looks like the Alaska pollock filet. Invigorated we hiked to one of the largest park in Europe: The Phoenix Park. But my expectations weren’t fulfilled. I’ve only seen a pond full of rubbish and duckweed, a Zoo that we can’t visit because an expensive admission fee of 15 pounds and a field like a arable area. Only the „War Memorial Gardens“ were beautiful. But at this time it began to rain and there were only a few people in the park. So we decided to went to the „Kilmainham Gaol“ a very old prison where we took a guidance with a typical Irish speaking women. Otherwise I was disappointed: The viewing point at the Old Jameson Destillery was out of order and we had no access to the docks I wanted to visit. At the evening Benny and me went exhausted from the long walk to a pub.

Cliffs of Moher & City Racing

Yesterday we made a day tour to Limerick and the Cliffs of Moher. The day befor I ordered a taxi for 7 people for the next morning at 6:15 so we had to be infront of our apartments. We shared the taxi price so everyone had to pay only 2 Euro. We got a little bus and the bus driver called Bud started at around 6:55. At around 10 o’clock we arrived at Limerick to have a little walk around the castle. When we arrived the Cliffs at around 12:15 we got some warnings from the driver because there were already a few people who fell from the cliffs. It was very rainy so I decided to make pictures at fast as possible to go inside. The weather didn’t changed so I went through the atlantic gallery which was very interesting. After the visit at the cliffs we had lunch in a little village. I ate baked salmon fillet which was very tasty. We also saw the coast of Galway which was also very rainy. At around 19:00 we were back in Dublin.

Today we went into the city to buy some toast as we noticed that there is the Bavaria City Racing in Dublin city. It was awesome. The sound, the smell of the burned fuel and the cars and bikes were pretty cool. Pictures will follow. Too bad I can’t upload the 3D videos from my Nintendo 3DS.

Short story: the supermarket

I went to Mark & Spencer’s to buy my lunch. In the supermarket I was thinking of buying some more stuff for the evening so I keept my eyes open. Suddenly an old lady stopped me and asked for help. She told me that she got a message on her mobile phone from someone and don’t know how to open it. She was kind of excited because she thought that someone from her family wrote her. When I opened the message I noticed that it is just junkmail from O2 so I told her to delete them. When she saw that there were more messages she asked me if these aren’t from her family. I opened the next one and again junkmail. So I asked her if it’s a new mobile phone and she told me that she just bought it. Afterwards I explained her that it is normal for new phones. In the end she was really happy that someone helped her.

Party + fire alarm = restless night

Today in the morning … at 1 a.m. … some guys and girls started a party on the 1st floor with extremly loud techno and dance music. When I look out of my bedrooms window I see the balcony where they were dancing and screaming. I tried to sleep but I couldn’t so I decided to use my Ohropax but as I put them in my ears I noticed that I was still able to hear that sound. So I was hoping that they would be done with the party soon. That was around 4 a.m. and the party was still going on. So I thought of going into the livingroom to get my sleep there. As I entered the room I turned back to my bedroom because it wouldn’t had made much sense. Everywhere was loud music to hear. At around 5:30 a.m. I suddenly fall asleep but only for 30 minutes. And the music was going on and on. After I took a shower at 8:30 a.m. (music was still playing) I wanted to take my breakfast but …

Suddenly there appeared a really nasty sound. I was like: „What the hell?!“ When I left the house I noticed that it was the fire alarm which made that noise. The guy in the reception wasn’t there so after a while someone decided to call the fire department and ask for a solution because there were no smoke to see and no smell of burned stuff. A few minutes later someone managed to silent the alarm. And guess what … the music was still playing!

After my breakfast I went to Dun Laoghaire with my parents. It was a pretty day and I also got sun burned. When I came back at 17:20 to the apartments the music was still playing. But hey, they turned the music off at 17:30. Now it’s time for a long sleep.

My parents @ Dublin

Today was a nice day. In the morning I went to the Burlington Hotel to meet my parents. I was really happy to see them after that long time. But my attention was somewhere else at that moment as I saw that awesome vehicle.

Pink Hummer Limo

I asked my father if he rent that limo but he sadly said no. Anyway we walked across the St. Stephen’s Green Park then through the Grafton Street and after across the O’Connel Bridge to the Spire. I decided to make a Dublin tour with my parents so we bought 3 tickets at the Hop On – Hop Off bus (Red Line). First time we hopped off was at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. We payed 5.50 Euro per person to get in. The Price is ok in my opinion. Sadly a lot of my pictures are worst nothing because of that stupid light inside of the cathedral. Our next stop was the Guinness Storehouse. I was already in there but I noticed that there are many more people at the weekend. In the afternoon we bought some T-Shirt for me at Mark & Spencers.

Tomorrow will be a nice day too.