In Dublin's Fair City...

Day 1 in Dublin

After getting up at just after 3am and getting a taxi and a plane from Leeds, we eventually arrived in Dublin, dropped our bags at the hostel and headed out for Breakfast! It was only 8:30am in the morning still so the streets of dublin were still relatively quiet as the city was still rubbing its bleary eyes and beginning to prepare for the day ahead. We arrived on Tuesday morning - April Fool's Day. It was a glorious day in the city, with plenty of sunshine as it warmed through our bones and made us get our sunglasses out.

First of all though...Breakfast! When travelling with two hungry men - you cannot escape the call of the belly and must settle down to eat some grub at regular intervals! Having already had my breakfast (even if it was hours before at the airport) I was relatively full and merely needed my morning cuppa which is sustenance enough! However the boys and Han required some scran and we hunted down 'Meet and Meat' in one of the quaint back streets in Dublin's Temple Bar area (South William Street to be precise)! The place was relatively trendy with tiled walls - a little reminiscent of the hospital scenes in Patrick Stewart's Macbeth and vintage style decorations littering the space. I loved that the sugars were all in old golden syrup tins and there were old food boxes framed and on the wall! What the other 3 ordered looked and smelled delicious! Dec had a huge bowl full of Greek yoghurt, coulis and granola - which I would have definitely ordered had I been hungry! Hannah and Ashley had these whopper bacon/egg/sausage sarnies! 

Meet & Meat

Corner of Exchequer St & South William St. Dublin 2
Ph: 00353 1 969 6888

After Meet & Meat we headed to the 'Medieval Area' of the city and wandered round the selection of churches scattered around and took in the sights of Dublin Castle - though as my Sister exclaimed when looking through my holiday snaps - "it doesn't look much like a castle!"

We then headed to the Guinness Factory and after a wrong turning wound our way to the Guinness Storehouse! We booked online before we went meaning that we got a small discount on our tickets - but regardless - it is well worth a visit! Especially if it is a lovely day as the view from the Gravity Bar is amazing! 

After learning how Guinness was made, developed, advertised and sold, we came to the part of the tour which allowed us to 'taste test' and 'pull our own pints'. 

I am a fan of Guinness so was looking forward to that last bit - although the lack of sustenance in my stomach wasn't so I was stuffing mini-cheddar's in before I sunk the pint! 

We each took it in turns to pull our own pints before letting it settle and putting the froth on top! 

Then we took our pints to the top of the tower for the best view over the City of Dublin!