This is our ♥ story: Dublin

Well if you are not sure, Dublin is the capital of Ireland. And well again if you are not familiar, only Northern Ireland belongs to United Kingdom and the not-northern part (I'm not sure whether people call it Southern Ireland or not, probably not) is an independent country. And here we go, me and William went to Dublin on the last few days of March ;)

I'm sure you all come across this thing before. You know the transparent plastic bag which you used to put your liquid stuff eg. lotion, shampoo, toothpaste if you are trying to bring them up into the plane? Aha, what I'm trying to tell you here is at Manchester Airport, you actually need to buy the plastic bag while other airports they will give it out for free. Weird.

and it costs one pound for 2 =="

departing...

princess is departing as well

The flight took about 40 minutes to arrive (initially my mum thought we used a whole day to travel ==" but I couldn't blame her lah, you know if you are more towards chinese educated you wouldn't know the geography of Europe countries. I admit I didn't even know where's Manchester located until I reached here, blekk)

Maldron Hotel, Tallaght

The hotel we checked in looked professional isn't it? True, it's located in a business park (30-40 minutes tram from the city. I know it sounds stupid, I felt so too after the trip ended), I think mostly businessmen will stay here and due to this factor we had free wi-fi access in the hotel, teehee.

Argh, but it didin't give me a good impression. 1st thing, when we wanted to make a cup of tea then only we realised there was no teaspoon provided. Fine, this is not a big deal. 2nd thing, when my body wanted to release excess water and when I opened the toilet bowl cover, wtf someone somehow laosai before that and didn't flush it away!!!! Soooo darn disgustinggggg!!!! (don't try to ask me where's the photo of that I can't even bother to look at it and I kept jumping and shouting and complaining for sure!). Wei, hotel ler, your house keeping fella didn't clean the toilet bowl one is it? Or the one who laosai-ed was actually the house keeper? STILL! grrhhhh. And 3rd thing, I found the carpet got some blood stain (at that time I actually think it was some ghost thingy, blek). Irritating.

Anyway, forget about that now cause I'm going to show you photos of food (eewwww). We went to the city for dinner. Did some research before our trip and so we landed at this "The Best Fish and Chips" in Dublin - Leo Burdock.

the famous Leo Burdock

Fish and Chips

Giant Sausage and Chips

You ask me was it superb? I say so-so only (this was my first try, I tried it the second time on day 2, hahaha, stay tune). Of course the outer part of the fish was crispy and it was aromatic, it's just that maybe it didn't taste that strong so it didn't earns my thumbs up. The chips was okay, you know, okay that type loh. Eventually many famous people tried it before. The names I knew were Jackie Chan and U2. Others I tak tau.

Hall of Fame

We walked around Temple Bar after dinner, the popular tourists' attraction. Oh well, it's not really an attraction, nothing special there excpet it has alot of bars and clubs and restaurants (you know Irish likes to drink, alot). Of course if you have no idea where to take your meal, maybe you just have to walk around here and I'm sure you can find one to dine in.

Temple Bar at night

I will have more photos of Temple Bar on other days since I went there like 3 times where I spent 4 days 3 nights in Dublin wtf. Irish they like to drink, and they brew alot of beer or whatever it calls (cause I don't know how to differentiate what beer lah what lager lah what ale lah) also. William tried to taste some local beer or whatever it calls and it turned out tasted awful, hahaha. His exact words were "it makes me wanna puke".

Potterhouse -the bar we went in

William's awful pint of red beer or whatever it calls and my half pint of safe cider

Okay, maybe it was just his luck to taste the not-so-nice beer (or duh). Irish brew nice erm... I don't know how to categorize them. Alchocol maybe? ==" Guinness you know? Guinness stout (this one I know, haha)! You know it's brewery is in Dublin right? Har you don't know?! (hahahaha, just being sarcastic, you think I know before I visit here meh? blek) Will tell you more about Guinness in the next post.