I went to Ireland for 2 days because people I work with here in LA came over for a work trip, so I thought, what the hell, all I have to pay for is a plane ticket from London to Dublin and the rest will be paid for by the company! It was a great time just seeing people from home whom I hadn't see in 7 weeks and just hanging out in a new city, like usual. And of course it doesn't hurt when I get my own room in a 4 star hotel in the center of Dublin!
This is the only picture of me in my travels. My boss Kevin took this
picture of me in Dublin and I am in front of St. Patrick's Church, off
a bus tour we were taking of the city. It looks cold because it was!
It rained later in the day and that being the first day there, just kind of sucked
(and it didn't help that everyone was tired because they had just
flown in from LA the day before!)
When trains in Ireland go on strike, they don't stop running. They keep
running and the passengers don't have to pay. I had never heard that
before (considering my major European travel had taken place in Italy
where trains are on strike all the time and they just don't run when
they are on strike there)! So our little group took a local train outside
the city on our second day just to find 'green'. And we found it!
We just got off the train about an hour outside the city, found this
little town where the green just falls into the ocean.
I am oddly obsessed with phone booths in other countries. (Phone booths
and cars, because if you have ever been to Europe, they got some
funky cars over there.) I take pictures of them no matter where I go.
This is a phone booth in Ireland. They call themselves Eire for short
(sounds like 'Ear' as in the thing you listen with) to distinguish
themselves from the UK, whom they as recently as the 1920's gained their
independence from, making them one of the newer countries in Europe.
What is a trip to Ireland and not going to Bono from U2's house? One
of the people on the trip wanted to go to his house and who am I to
argue with that? It is a total tourist site and people around Dublin
have nothing but nice words to say about him. It's like everyone
runs into him all the time there! To the right of his gate there is a
long stairwell that is laid with stone on each side that goes all the
way to the ocean and that wall is covered in graffiti, everyone leaving
their message to Bono.
I am sorry, but how freakin' hilarious is this sign? The building
across the street from our hotel had this sign on their brick wall out
side of it and I had to take a picture. There where signs of this
hilarity all over the UK and Ireland and it was great to see there
sense of humor.
