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_panda_

_panda_

I'm lost
November 2005

MAR 17, 2010 10:57 PM

Change in plans, looks like I will be in Dublin Friday and Saturday -

Any suggestions for Friday evening and Saturday day -

- Best pub/food
- Best historic site
- Unique museum
- Thrift store
- Record store
- Freak show
- Tourist trap
- etc....

_panda_

_panda_

I'm lost
November 2005

APR 03, 2010 07:58 AM

... bump!

Going back next week!

Any suggestions!

AnnaLee

AnnaLee

SUICIDEGIRL

I'm lost

APR 03, 2010 11:11 AM

My favorite things in Dublin are The Chester Beatty Library which is a really beautiful book museum with an amazing collection of sacred manuscripts - http://www.cbl.ie/Exhibitions/Permanent-Exhibitions.aspx The archaeology museum is also really great, it's a lovely building filled with iron age gold and beautiful leathery bog bodies - http://www.museum.ie/en/intro/archaeology-and-ethnography-museum.aspx The natural history museum is really good but I think it might be closed currently. The Phoenix Park is lovely too, there are deer there :-)

Lemonkid

Lemonkid

Canada
May 2003

APR 08, 2010 10:42 PM

Cool. I'll be there soon, looking forward to it.

_panda_

_panda_

I'm lost
November 2005

APR 13, 2010 05:18 PM

Thanks AnnaLee - I took the Viking Splash tour - it was fun - now I know what I want to see as a tourist when I go back - also had a nice time in odonohues - still havnt found the rock and roll though.

AnnaLee

AnnaLee

SUICIDEGIRL

I'm lost

APR 14, 2010 03:06 AM

_panda_ said:
Thanks AnnaLee - I took the Viking Splash tour - it was fun - now I know what I want to see as a tourist when I go back - also had a nice time in odonohues - still havnt found the rock and roll though.



Rock and roll as in music? If that's what you mean then Bruxelles is the rock/metal bar there, it's on Harry Street just off the middle of Grafton Street. You are better off going to the book museum though, kids these days... ^_^

Lemonkid

Lemonkid

Canada
May 2003

APR 14, 2010 04:44 AM

AnnaLee said:

_panda_ said:
Thanks AnnaLee - I took the Viking Splash tour - it was fun - now I know what I want to see as a tourist when I go back - also had a nice time in odonohues - still havnt found the rock and roll though.



Rock and roll as in music? If that's what you mean then Bruxelles is the rock/metal bar there, it's on Harry Street just off the middle of Grafton Street. You are better off going to the book museum though, kids these days... ^_^



Mmmm books.

atomicant

atomicant

Portland, OR
June 2003

APR 16, 2010 02:44 PM

i thought it was pretty evenly split between getting drunk and asking god for forgiveness for getting drunk...

kohhna

kohhna

United Kingdom
February 2010

APR 27, 2010 01:56 PM

atomicant said:
i thought it was pretty evenly split between getting drunk and asking god for forgiveness for getting drunk...


And wife beating. Its like our number 2 passtime / export. Fingers crossed for the 2022 olympics in dublin where we'll be pushing for competitive long distance wife-beating to be included as an event.

ehwhatsthis

ehwhatsthis

Ireland
September 2009

APR 27, 2010 03:21 PM

....or don't go to Dublin.

Come to Cork.

Lemonkid

Lemonkid

Canada
May 2003

APR 29, 2010 05:38 AM

atomicant said:
i thought it was pretty evenly split between getting drunk and asking god for forgiveness for getting drunk...





O God loves a drunk, the lowest of men
With the dogs in the street and the pigs in the pen
But a drunk's only trying to get free of his body
And soar like an eagle high up there in heaven
His shouts and his curses are just hymns and praises
To kick-start his mind now and then
O God loves a drunk, come raise up your glasses, amen
Does God really care for your life in the suburbs
A dull little life of dull little things
and bring up the babies to be just like Daddy
And maybe you'll be there when He gives out wings
But God loves a drunk, although he's a fool
He wets in his pants and he falls off his stool

- Richard Thompson


RudieCantFail

RudieCantFail

Baton Rouge, LA
January 2006

APR 29, 2010 06:00 AM

There's a place called Gallagher's Boxty House in Temple Bar. The corned beef and cabbage boxty there was superb.

The National Museum of Ireland was really interesting. It's kind of like Ireland's Smithsonian. Admission was free when I went in 2006.

The General Post Office, where the Easter Rising of 1916 took place is worth a visit.

Smithwicks (pronounced Smiddicks) is my Irish beer of choice.