Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Dublin Day 3

Today i decided to make the most of my day as it was my last full day in dublin, so i went into the city and purchased a ticket to the guided bus tour of Dublin, i had a wonderful time jumping on and off the bus at certain points and just learning about the city from a true irishman who knew his stuff. The way things had worked out the previous night i knew taht i wanted to aim to get back to the hostel around the evening so that i could meet up with my friends and go out together, so i knew i had an extra hour and half or so to kill and when the Bus driver/ Tour guide mentioned the stop at the Jamesson Distillery and the amazing quality of the tour i knew just how to spend that time.
The Jamesson distillery tour was by far the best tour i have been on. the guide was quite informed she loved the product ( which she pronounced jaa-mmmm-ehhh-san) and the investment that the company had made in all the entire tour from beginning to end was quite evident. the bus driver had also suggested to our tour that at the beginning of the tour when the guide asks for volunteers it is important for us volunteer as we will get to participate in a whiskey tasting. so when the guide asked for volunteers i volunteered aned got to participate in a whiskey tasting of a blabk label scotch, regular 12 year matured jamesson, and johnny walker. I learned that in order to truly enjoy whiskey when you drink it, it is imperative to put a few drops of water in the drink in order to bring out the full flavor and i learned that oak is the best and preffered wood to use in the casks that help the whiskey mature over the years.
After that tour i jumped back on another tour bus and made my way back to the hostel after a quick dinner where i met up with my french friends again. at first i was disappointed because i had been very excited to go on a literary pub crawly where the actors performed works from famous irish authors as part of the drinking experience but i relented when they suggested to me that we go on another pub crawl instead known as the backpacker pub crawl. this pub crawl started out at right outside of trinity university, and we got to visit places like the trinity university pub which serves the cheapest beer in all of dublin. we got to visit a viking themed pub. we got to visit a traditional old Irish pub where we heard stories about how some man lost his leg, and we got to visit a dance club, on this tour i met a whole bunch of other cool tourists and we all exchanged facebook information and are now in contact, on our way home some Irish girls started yelling at us about something or other luckily we ignored them and continued walking because apparently Irish girls can hold their own in a fight. thus ended my last night, night 3 in dublin

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What I am reading right now

  • Herodotus: Histories
  • James Joyce: The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
  • Niccolo Macchiaveli: The Prince
  • Stephen Presscott: Gates of Fire
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