My Last Weekend in Ireland
I had a great weekend this last weekend. There was great weather and NO RAIN for once!!! I was very excited. On Friday morning we left for Dublin at 9:30am and we were supposed to arrive in Trim at 4:40, but with some complications we did not get there until 7pm. We had a great trip from Listowel to Limerick and from Limerick to Dublin. But when we got to Dublin everything kind of came crashing down! We got in to Dublin right at 3:30, which just so happens to be the exact time that our bus for Trim was leaving...aka we missed the bus. The next connecting bus to Trim didn't leave until 5:30pm. So we had to wait for 2 hours in the freezing cold bus station. We made of the best of it. We talked and did some people watching it was pretty fun. When 5:00 came around we decided it was time to start looking for our bus so we would not miss this one.
When we started to look for gates and things we soon realized that Trim was a very popular place to be because there were 3 buses leaving from Dublin to Trim at 5:30. We thought that this last portion of our trip to Trim was going to be the easiest, but we were completely wrong. We found the queue (line) to wait in and it was already really, really long. We couldn't believe it. There were supposed to be two gates between the three buses. Well when the first bus arrived the two lines kind of merged into one and everyone was pushing and shoving trying to get on this first bus. And to make matters worse a bus that was supposed to leave for Galway at 5:00 arrived late at our gate so there were people trying to get on to the Galway bus while there were already a ton of people trying to squeeze onto this one bus for Trim. Eventually the first bus left for Trim, then about 10 minutes later the bus for Galway left. So it started to quiet down a bit, but then when the second bus arrived for Trim people were again pushing and shoving. Ali and I were one of the first people in line for this bus and we ended up being half way back on the bus because people were being so rude and pushing and shoving and budging. At least we got on the bus and we made it to Trim but it was much more interesting than we had expected it to be.
When we got to Trim around 6:45 we found Angela's place and we met the girl she was living with, Claire, then we went to get some supper and some wine. We ate pizza and caesar salad and drank some wine while talking and watching movies. It was a nice and relaxing night. When we woke up in the morning we got ready and Ang gave us the tour around Trim. I thought Listowel was small but Trim is really small. There is only one main road in all of Trim and it only has 1 internet cafe. I have decided that the way to tell how big a city is you need to count how many internet cafes it has. Listowel has 3, Trim has 1 and Dublin has about 1,000...so you do the math. Anyway, Ang took us down the one main road and we got to see everything that her town had to offer. It was actually a very cute town and very clean. On our tour we also got to see the Trim Castle.
The Trim Castle is one of the best kept up and most well known castles in all of Ireland. It was used in the filming of the movie Braveheart. It was built in 1174 by Hugh De Lacy
The front ofTrim Castle
The back of Trim Castle
The Boyne River
After walking around Trim we took the bus into Dublin. After arriving in Dublin we found our B&B. This B&B was much closer to the town center than the last B&B that we had in Dublin but it was a lot more ghetto! The lady who answered the door did not have any teeth and the buildings around the B&B were not very well kept up. Our room though was pretty nice. We had a tv and beds so we really couldn't complain. We set our stuff down and we were immediately off. We left our room around 12pm and we went shopping and walking around Dublin until 8:30pm. Now if any of you know me at all, you would realize that this is not a typical Katie Hallet thing to do. For me to go shopping for over 8 hours was insane!!!! But I did fine. We didn't shop the entire time, we did a lot of walking around and seeing the city so it was nice. We also, in our adventures found some really cool sites in the city and some really neat shops!
The Brazen Head is Ireland's Oldest Pub!!!
The church in the background was built in 1030
After shopping and walking around all day we walked back to our B&B and relaxed. We all got into our PJ's and watched movies and TV all night. It was great because we were all beat from the day. Sunday we woke up and ate our LAST full irish breakfast. I am going to be so glad to go home and be able to eat pancakes and french toast and no more fried eggs with bacon (aka ham) and sausages, etc. After breakfast we got ready and headed into Dublin once more. We found an internet cafe and hung out until our bus left at 11:30. We had a much better bus ride on the way back to Listowel than we did on the way there. No missed busses and no outrageously long lines. So everything worked out really well. I had a great last weekend and am really glad that I got to see Angela before I left for home and that I got to see everything that I wanted to during my time in Ireland.
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