I woke up to Jonathon heading out the door for breakfast at 8 AM, so I got up as well even though everyone else was sleeping. Breakfast ended at 9:30 and I didn’t want to miss out.
Our hostel has a laundry service for 7 euros per bag, so we all chipped in the night before for two bags. We were picking up the clean clothes this morning, so I had to re wear all dirty clothes at breakfast. It was a very gross feeling, but I knew it wouldn’t be for long.
In the kitchen there was a really cool self-serve pancake machine. You hit a button, and thirty seconds later, a pancake popped out. There was a glass window and you can see the batter pour onto a conveyor belt and cook. It was pretty cool and the pancakes were decent for a machine.
While eating breakfast, some people next to me were speaking Italian and I did my best to listen. They were saying something about how learning Spanish is easy if you know Italian. It was good practice because I am very rusty at it.
I came back downstairs to shower and get some clothes on. After I got out of the shower, creepy lady was up and acting weird again. I got ready as quick as possible and headed to the common room.
They had a guitar there, and I played for a little bit while the rest of my friends finished breakfast. A little while later, it was time to head out for the free waking tour we were planning to do. We randomly saw a flyer for it on the hostel and it seemed like a good idea.
We walked down the street where we saw a group of people waiting in a corner. This was the tour the meeting spot and one of the guides told us we were starting in ten minutes. They split us into groups of about 15 and we headed off.
I forget our guides name, but he reminded me a lot of a young and Irish Andy Bernard from the Office. He was really funny and gave great historical commentary on everything we saw. He also use tons of Game of Thrones references which was cool.
Here are a bunch of pictures from the tour, I’ll try to give some basic descriptions for most.
Old Part of a Castle
The courtyard of the Dublin castle.
The Duvlin Gardens. Dublin was known as Duvlin back in the day, which means “black pools”
The famous ha’penny bridge, Ireland’s first toll bridge
Halfway through the tour, we had a twenty minute lunch where we stopped at a pub. This pub seriously looked like something of the Ireland section in Epcot. It was funny because if I saw this restaurant in the US, I would think it was corny. But in Ireland, it’s authentic (or at least authentic to an American tourist).
I didn’t get anything because I wasn’t hungry, but a lot of people got Irish coffees and Nick and Harry split a beef n Guinness pie. I tried both and they were surprisingly good.
To quote our tour guide, “I would drink Irish coffees, but I’m not an alcoholic”.
There also was a bunch of nice American girls in our tour group who we talked to for a bit.
The tour resumed and we saw a bunch more sights. We finished at Trinity college, which was very pretty.
Here’s some pictures of trinity
We wanted to go inside but it cost 10 euros. After exploring the area for a bit, we headed back to the hostel. Most of us didn’t have a real lunch and wanted to find a place with traditional Irish pub food to eat.
Harry did some searching online, and found a place called Green 19 that seemed cheap and really good. We headed there.
I was really tempted to get the corned beef and cabbage, but I ended up getting a club sandwich because it was significantly cheaper. The food took a really long time to come out, and our waiter told us that he had forgot to put the order in. We weren’t annoyed too much because he promised us some free desserts.
My club sandwich came out and was gigantic. I was very glad I got it instead of the corned beef. Nick had some corned beef and cabbage that I tried, and to be honest, it wasn’t as good as the ones my mom makes.
My sandwich
After eating, we all ordered the Baileys Cheesecake. Our tour guide had said this was an essential Irish dessert to try, so we knew it was a must have.
Baileys Cheesecake
This was seriously amazing and one of the best cheesecakes I’ve ever had. The best part was that it was free as well. As cheap college students, we were living the dream.
After our late lunch, we went look at some churches. St Patrick’s cathedral and Christ Church in particular.
St. Patrick’s was very pretty and surrounded by a beautiful green garden. My mind is still blown by how green the grass is in Ireland.
Here’s a pic of the church
Here’s Sebastien pushing Nick on a nearby swing set
We wanted to go inside, but we’re shocked to learn that it cost 10 euros. It blew all of our names that a church would charge people money to go inside. I don’t know, but that seems very anti-Christian to me.
Refusing to pay the 10 euros, we went to the next church. This one was pretty as well and also charged money to enter. This whole concept was very bizarre to me and opposite of what I’ve experienced everywhere else in Europe.
On the way back, I stopped in a random shop to buy a plug converter. The United Kingdom has different plugs and I’ve been living off my portable charger so far. All my devices had died and I knew I would need the converter for London.
While we were looking at churches, Jonathon had gone out to buy groceries and more whiskey of course. We had some left over ingredients and were making burritos again for dinner.
Upon getting back to the room, we were delighted to see the creepy women’s stuff gone. We had the room to ourselves once again.
We hung out in the room for a while after this, and I used the time to utilize my new converter and charge my laptop.
Dinner went pretty smoothly tonight as we were doing burritos for the second time in the same kitchen. We ran like a well-oiled machine and quickly had everything ready. Cooking is a lot easier when you have five people doing stuff.
Here is a meal and terribly staged candid photo.
The burritos were pretty good, but we had accidentally bought way too many tortillas. We planned to save the rest for later.
After all cleaning up, we went back to the room for a bit. Nick left to go on some ghost tour, but the rest of us weren’t interested. I borrowed the guitar from the common room and brought it back to ours. I played for my friends for a while and we just relaxed.
A bit later, we started pregaming for our last night out at the bar. With the use of my speaker, we were all spitting freestyle raps and it was a fun time. We headed to some bar called Brogans where we planned to meet the Americans from our tour group.
The night out was pretty fun and I consumed an unhealthy amount of Irish whiskey and glasses of Guinness. Being in Ireland truly makes you appreciate the two of them.
Nick and I headed in a little earlier at 11:30, we had to be up around 4 for our flight. I got back and immediately passed out.
Foreign Tourist with No Grasp of the Local Language 
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