Well, when I got off the plane I had to go through passport control, and the stamp was BIG!! It pretty much took up like half a page... After getting my luggage I exited and was a bit lost with all the buses. Plus, I was panicking on the other hand because I totally forgot to buy an adaptor while I was in Madrid! I doubted that I would find it in downtown Dublin, so I searched EVERYWHERE (Arrival and Departure) in the airport, but just couldn't find it. Whatever, I thought, I'll just wish for all the best.
I got so confused with the buses too! I entered and exited and entered and exited the airport many times trying to find the bus line that goes directly to Dublin! So I went to the tourist centre, and the lady was so NICE!!! She showed me a map and wrote all the lines that go from airport to city centre and back, and the location of stops in the city centre. I bought a round-trip ticket and she kindly told me how to use it. That was a first good impression of the city for me! So I got on to the double-deck city bus (pretty much all the public buses in Dublin are like that!), and of course I chose the upper deck to get a better view! On the way to city centre, everywhere was so GREEN!!! :D
So I got to the city centre pretty soon, and the street I got off was really busy! So many people walking around, and there were so many tourist shops! All about stereotypical Irish things, like lucky charm, leprochaun, Guiness ... etc. I passed by the Spire of Dublin, and it was just this needle pointing in the air, lol! I thought it would as big and tall as CN Tower.
Anywayyyy, I got to the hostel, and people were really nice! I barely talk to people in my room whenever I live in hostels (so far a lot of people I've met in hostels aren't really nice...), but this time was different! I got to know a girl name Marta from Spain who was really interested in learning English, and I talked to her a bit in Spanish just to refresh :P, and she was kind of happy to hear that cause her English was really limited. I understood how she felt. She told me that all tourist shops had adaptor, which I later purchased (CRISIS AVERTED!!!). There's another guy named Shane from France, and he too was learning English. He was interested in going to Canada.
So... that night Shane invited me to go out for the night with other people in the hostel. I totally don't remember their names (cause I'm pretty stupid like that) but there were 1 Mexican, 1 Finnish, and 3 British. We walked around downtown, mostly where the bars were because we wanted to drink. Dublin was a lively at night!
There were a lot of street performers, and still some shops and restaurants were open and packed with people!
We went to this place that the British went the day before, but one of them thought it was too loud, so we walked up to the roof garden.
We went to this place that the British went the day before, but one of them thought it was too loud, so we walked up to the roof garden.
It was like 5 floors up... Well, when we got there apparently we weren't supposed to be there! It's like private location and only people with invitation could go in. Well, there was NO ONE but one bartender, and he was really nice so he allowed us to stay for a drink. PERFECT!!!
The roof garden actually has a roof that opens and you could see the stars and sky!
Since I was in Ireland, of course I had to order a Guiness!
The 7 of us just talked about anything, but the place was still dead after 23:00. The bartender said Wednesday is usually dead. Not a surprise. So we decided to leave after our drinks, and went for another bar, which was supposedly the cheapest in Dublin.
We were there for a while, and later some people went to get Indian food. After getting food we walked back to the hostel and ended our day. Not bad for a first night in Dublin!
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