Started the day with a 4am wake up call to catch our flight to Dublin for some St. Paddy's day mayhem. Our first stop was St. Patrick's Festival Parade checked out the 80 metre stiletto heel cancer dash on O'Connell street. Hopefully I can figure out how to upload the video it was pretty amazing. With the Parade theme in 2010 being ‘Extraordinary World’, the much anticipated annual favourite, the festival Parade features newly commissioned, highly original and inventive street theatre troupes, artists, giant puppetry, dancers and marching bands from Ireland and across the globe. I have some beautiful pictures of the event. Time for our first pub of the day the Purty Kitchen for some Guiness steak pie & of course some Guiness and cider for me. :) One thing that was consistent was the service in Dublin everyone is super friendly and helpful in all aspects of tourism. The streets were filled with green. Street meat vendors lined the streets of Temple Bar artist ready to paint your face some for charity and some for there own Paddy's Day Party Fund. We stayed at a 2 bedroom apartment in Dublin best rates and came with kitchen & laundry.
http://www.staydublin.com/apartment-christchurch.php
There are a few different serviced apartments you can find on the internet. I like staying at apartments because it feels more like home and you don't always have to eat out, which is nice when you are trying to stay on a budget. Another hotel pub we went to was
http://www.centralhoteldublin.com/ The Central Library Bar was unique and a nice place to have a pint after a long day of touring. We ended up eating downstairs at the new Exchequer restaurant. All food was locally sourced and very good.
www.theexchequer.ie You can get a pie & pint for 15 Euro. Ireland is very expensive but you can always find a good deal if you look around. We were lucky enough to see the city pretty much from top to bottom. Went to a few museums, did a city bus tour, Guiness Brewery tour
http://www.guinness-storehouse.com/en/Index.aspx & of course checked out Grafton Street for the amazing shopping. Most of the locals like to stay away from Temple Bar but I know they turned up for the parade there were over 650,000 people. We had a really great city break in Dublin and I look forward to going back again. One thing I would do differently is try to get an serviced apartment or hotel on the parade route with a street view.
Started the day with a 4am wake up call to catch our flight to Dublin for some St. Paddy's day mayhem. Our first stop was St. Patrick's Festival Parade checked out the 80 metre stiletto heel cancer dash on O'Connell street. Hopefully I can figure out how to upload the video it was pretty amazing. With the Parade theme in 2010 being ‘Extraordinary World’, the much anticipated annual favourite, the festival Parade features newly commissioned, highly original and inventive street theatre troupes, artists, giant puppetry, dancers and marching bands from Ireland and across the globe. I have some beautiful pictures of the event. Time for our first pub of the day the Purty Kitchen for some Guiness steak pie & of course some Guiness and cider for me. :) One thing that was consistent was the service in Dublin everyone is super friendly and helpful in all aspects of tourism. The streets were filled with green. Street meat vendors lined the streets of Temple Bar artist ready to paint your face some for charity and some for there own Paddy's Day Party Fund. We stayed at a 2 bedroom apartment in Dublin best rates and came with kitchen & laundry. http://www.staydublin.com/apartment-christchurch.php
There are a few different serviced apartments you can find on the internet. I like staying at apartments because it feels more like home and you don't always have to eat out, which is nice when you are trying to stay on a budget. Another hotel pub we went to was http://www.centralhoteldublin.com/ The Central Library Bar was unique and a nice place to have a pint after a long day of touring. We ended up eating downstairs at the new Exchequer restaurant. All food was locally sourced and very good. www.theexchequer.ie You can get a pie & pint for 15 Euro. Ireland is very expensive but you can always find a good deal if you look around. We were lucky enough to see the city pretty much from top to bottom. Went to a few museums, did a city bus tour, Guiness Brewery tour http://www.guinness-storehouse.com/en/Index.aspx & of course checked out Grafton Street for the amazing shopping. Most of the locals like to stay away from Temple Bar but I know they turned up for the parade there were over 650,000 people. We had a really great city break in Dublin and I look forward to going back again. One thing I would do differently is try to get an serviced apartment or hotel on the parade route with a street view.
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