Dublin was definitely an interesting trip for a few reasons, but I’ll expand on that later. So, on Friday, while still in Paris we had to take a bus out to the airport, which is about an hour away, not even inside Paris. That night we flew in to Dublin and took a taxi to our hostel. Some of us went out, but others stayed in for the night. I was one that stayed in to sleep. The next morning we had a tour bus prepared to take us around Ireland for the whole day.
That morning we secured all of our things in one bin, because we only had one lock for all of our things. This was really my first true hostel experience because at the hostel we stayed at in Amsterdam it was only people in our travel group in the room. But in Dublin, there were two random people in the other beds. Hence, this is why we locked up some of our things. We made it onto the paddywagon tour bus and headed through the Irish country side to the Cliffs of Moher.
Along the way we made a couple of stops at convenience stores. Our bus driver, Sean, was an okay tour guide. We were thinking that he might have showed us more things or talked more, but he didn’t, so we ended up sleeping most of the way. Once we arrived at the Cliffs, we were all eager to get out, take pictures, and observe the views. This was my favorite part of the trip. It was an incredible view and like something I had never seen before. I was also able to get some great pictures, which I was happy about. My Instagram account appreciates the subject matter.
To no one’s surprise I rolled my ankle again, and on a completely smooth surface. This was when I was going to look at the souvenirs near the Cliff, but after that I decided to just head back to the bus.
The next day we spent most of our time in a McDonalds where we hogged the wifi and power outlets so that we could study and do homework. When I got back home to tell my host mom, she said that this was an expensive way to do homework. I reassured her, though, that we were able to walk around the city and get some souvenirs. That night we went to eat some traditional Irish cuisine, which consisted mostly of lamb, beef, potatoes and Guinness.
In order to conserve money, we decided in advance to spend that night at the airport until we had our flight early Monday morning. This is where half of the sleep came into play. We stayed in this cafe area that had a bunch of booths that we could camp out at for the night. I went to sleep maybe at 1:30 and woke up to one of the employees at 4:30am saying, “Please get up,” but in the most polite way possible.
We caught our flight to Dusseldorf, got a train to Bonn, and arrived to a review session for 2II maybe 30 minutes late. Another weekend in another city, and now we were back to school in time for exams and finishing our project work.
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