My friend Charley came down from up north and we left the house at 5am Monday 15th to get to the other side of London to catch the coach and head on the road.
We had a couple of stops along the way and caught the ferry across to Dublin at 2.10pm - There was drinking on the bus - and the ferry although I couldnt drink onthe ferry was too ill.
I'm not so good on ferry's and Charley and I spent most of the ferry either outside or lying down near the door - 3 hours was a long time on the ferry!!
We got to the hostel around 6pm, changed and headed out to a bar with everyone else - for our first of 3 massive drinking nights.
Our room had 12 people in it, we had an upstairs as well, was the best room ive ever seen, and room 208 got known for being a party room! (Of course)
Tuesday we were up at 8am, to head off to the Guiness factory - 7 storeys of information about beer!
with a nice cold guiness in the top gravity bar overlooking Dublin.
Afterwards some people went back to nap - we headed to the pub, for another Irish beer (dont ask me what it was called but it was yummy) some of the guys tried some Guiness Pie and chips as well.
Tuesday night we headed to the famous Temple Bar - after drinks in the hostel first as Dublin drinking is expensive!
The bar was packed and hot and crowded but still had a good night
wednesday was the big day - our wake up call was 9am, for an 11am departure to go and watch the parade!
everyone.
Some people only hung around for 30mins then were back to the pub.
i stayed out and attempted to watch the parade, but there were so many people it was hard to get a good view - some of the floats and things were wicked ideas! Some were strange but very creative!
then it was back to the pub/bar - I tried some Guiness Pie and drank some MORE cider!
Got clovers and Irish flags tattoo'd all over my face and arms!
We were planning on doing a bit of a pub crawl in through the rest of the area, but it was just too busy in all other bars so decided to stay with the group!
It was a relatively early night for most of us - charley was asleep by 9pm, i stayed out drinking with ssome of the boys till about 11pm then crashed out.
Thursday was another early start - 5.40am wake up call, for a 6.30am depature, for the bus ride back to London.
There were a few "green" people on the ferry!!
We had some more drinks and arrived back in London at 7pm on Thursday, we all headed to the pub for 1 last drink before home to bed!
Highlight of the trip was the Wednesday arfternoon antics of drinking in the pub as a massive group (abiout 40 of us altogether drinking)
Im on a detox next week, no alcohol for the rest of March I think!!
Had a great week away!!
Hope everyone had a happy St Patricks DAy too!
xx
In the bar :)
At the Guiness Factory
