A little nutshell description for those who aren't familiar with couchsurfing: It's an online network for people who are travelling & need a place to stay, and those who are willing to host people that are visiting their city. It's nicer than hostels because you get to be in an actual home and there's someone to give you advice on what to do & see.
Anyway, we ended up staying with a Turk who had moved to Dublin 2 weeks prior! We were expecting to be thrown onto a little couch. Instead, after our overnight, very red-eye travels, we were greeted by this sight:
It was amazing. Our host is an employee for Microsoft (the building you can see from the balcony in the picture). The company is putting him up in this luxury tower and he was nice enough to pay it forward to us.
As for Dublin itself, it was rather small. Some of my travel companions were very disappointed with its lack of 'real culture.' After a day, I had to get out of that place. We took a bus to Belfast!
While in Belfast, we got to see Belfast Castle. There was a castle in Dublin also, but Belfast's was so much more picturesque--and was quite a hike to get there. It looked a little like this:
When we arrived, there was a wedding going on *sigh of happiness.* The gentlemen in the wedding party were in black tails with pink ties and pink roses on the lapel.
I'm sure other things happened in Dublin/Belfast. But these are the highlights : )
I arrived back home on Monday after 4.5 days away from London & went straight to class after doing the last edit of a paper!
4 comments:
Carol Grace,
You need more pictures with you in it! Belfast looks really green and beautiful! I would love to go there sometime and just soak it all in.
Have you managed to pick up the English accent? Yah, we must get together when you get back. I'll be poking fun at you if I hear you slip with "tootles" or something like that. Haha.
~ Daniel Dyba
I checked out the cute song link. During the first scene there's a sign that says "Camp Holadios". I read it as "Camp Hi God", but only after a few minutes did I realize they meant "Camp Hello Goodbye." Hahah!
Rachel I'm glad you had fun in Dublin! And I can't believe you went couchsurfing! I'm so happy that you had a good first experience... I have found that Turkish people have amazing-better-than-Asian hospitality. ;)
So where are you going next?
Dyba--I guess I have pictures with me in them on facebook. I kinda like the scenery ones better : )
Also, thanks for shedding light on the Hellogoodbye song! I thought it was "Camp Hi God" too...and I didn't get it =X
Megs--in 2 weekends I'm off to Salzburg/Munich!!
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