Dublin

We arrived in Dublin at around 10pm after almost an entire day of travel and a flight delay of about 45mins. It's just lucky we had such a restful sleep the previous night because we where exhausted! After stepping off the plain we caught a taxi to Jan and Jaime's place in Raheny (north of Dublin city). It only took about 15mins to get there, even after the Taxi driver made a couple of wrong turns. The first two observations we made about Ireland is that everyone is very helpful and polite and the street names are REALLY confusing even for locals. Jan and Jaime's house in on Grange Park Cres which should be easy enough to find except that in the same area will be Grange Park Close, Grange Park Street….you get where I'm going here right? Anyway the taxi driver was really nice and waited till we knocked on the door to check that we had the right house.

We hadn't seen Jan and Jaime for about six months so it was fun catching up again. We ended up staying up past midnight catching up which I must apologise for as Jaime had to get up pretty early for work the next day.

Jan and Jaime were both working on the Friday so after a bit of a late start we headed into Dublin city. Luckily Jan has a pretty flexible job and was able to catch the train with us and point us in the right direction. We made plans to meet up for dinner and proceeded to spend the day looking around the city. We met up with David (my cousin) for a coffee and in true Irish style we spent the rest of the afternoon in a pub drinking Beer and Cider (Bulmers is everywhere in Ireland much to my delight) when it started to rain.

After a pint and a half of Bulmers we met Jan and Jaime for dinner at a lovely restaurant where we drank two bottles of delicious wine. Those of you that know me will know what a cheap drunk I am so you can imagine how fun I became after all that! After dinner everyone decided that they needed more alcohol so we went to a pub for Guinness and a water for me, by this stage I was a little worse for wear but a fun night was had by all. Thanks again Jan and Jaime.

The only things we managed to do on Saturday were to sleep in and to see Trinity, where we saw the book of Kells. Then we went back to Jan and Jaime's yummy home cooked roast chicken and a movie night consisting of the hilarious Hercules Returns and oh so serious Michael Collins.

A big thanks to Jan and Jaime for there hospitality and everything else...see you in New York!