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Glendalough Adventure! - Dublin Day 2
Today we had a day trip to Glendalough. The trip was on a large bus and filled with a good mix of older and young people. The tour guide was great, awesome sense of humor. He told us about Dublin as we picked people up and then we headed towards Glendalough. The first stop was at the edge of Dublin and it was a place where some of the Irish people swim year round. There were some swimmers there that day but the temperature was a lot warmer than what it is like in January when they also swim. He said a lot of these people live very long lives and he thinks it has to do with the fact they swim everyday all year round. The next stop on the trip was on the edge of Glendalough, the Guiness Gardens. We mainly stopped there for coffee and cake but John and I had a an excellent brunch. In fact, the food was so good that we would have expected that type of food in Paris but we ended up finding in a random Irish tourist stop. The ride through Glendalough was amazing. The green and brown hills were quite beautiful. We stopped at a couple places on the side of the road to take pictures. One of the places was Guiness Lake. They call it Guiness Lake because the white beach at the top of the lake mixes with the black water and it looks like a spilled pint of Guiness. There was also a really cool estate that was part of the lake and apparently Michael Jackson stayed there for quite a while. The last stop on the trip we saw an old church and some celtic crosses before taking a walk down a trail. We talked with some of the young people on the walk and met some cool people from Canada and Portugal. Before we got on the bus the tour guide broke out a bottle of Jameson and we all took shots before we got on the bus. On the way home the tour guide borrowed my iPod and everyone listened to U2 while we drove back to Dublin. That night in Dublin we went out to dinner and ended up at a bar right next to Trinity College that was filled with college students. They played good music and we just chilled and took shots of Jameson.
Today we had a day trip to Glendalough. The trip was on a large bus and filled with a good mix of older and young people. The tour guide was great, awesome sense of humor. He told us about Dublin as we picked people up and then we headed towards Glendalough. The first stop was at the edge of Dublin and it was a place where some of the Irish people swim year round. There were some swimmers there that day but the temperature was a lot warmer than what it is like in January when they also swim. He said a lot of these people live very long lives and he thinks it has to do with the fact they swim everyday all year round. The next stop on the trip was on the edge of Glendalough, the Guiness Gardens. We mainly stopped there for coffee and cake but John and I had a an excellent brunch. In fact, the food was so good that we would have expected that type of food in Paris but we ended up finding in a random Irish tourist stop. The ride through Glendalough was amazing. The green and brown hills were quite beautiful. We stopped at a couple places on the side of the road to take pictures. One of the places was Guiness Lake. They call it Guiness Lake because the white beach at the top of the lake mixes with the black water and it looks like a spilled pint of Guiness. There was also a really cool estate that was part of the lake and apparently Michael Jackson stayed there for quite a while. The last stop on the trip we saw an old church and some celtic crosses before taking a walk down a trail. We talked with some of the young people on the walk and met some cool people from Canada and Portugal. Before we got on the bus the tour guide broke out a bottle of Jameson and we all took shots before we got on the bus. On the way home the tour guide borrowed my iPod and everyone listened to U2 while we drove back to Dublin. That night in Dublin we went out to dinner and ended up at a bar right next to Trinity College that was filled with college students. They played good music and we just chilled and took shots of Jameson.
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