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Two weekends ago I went for a long weekend to visit my favorite French friend Charlotte Robert who is studying in Dublin. As I’ve had requests for more pictures, I’ve done my best to try to add more despite the unstable Internet connection we have here.<br /><br />Wednesday night before I left (with a belly full of practically free tapas and Agua de Valencia, which I enjoyed with my old roommate Margaret who was visiting for Spring Break yea!) I was somewhat concerned about where it was I was actually going once I arrived in Dublin. Internet had been down at school so I hadn't gotten to email Charlotte until the last minute and hadn’t heard back from her, so after some frantic flipping through the "Let’s Go Western Europe 2005" travel guide which included the city of Dublin, I decided that if all else failed and I couldn't find her I would just do a solo tour of Dublin for my first trip to Ireland.

3 Sketchy Men & a Lisa in Dublin

Lisa Damico
2006-02-27 18:15:05

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knew I was wearing the plastic gloves applying the “brown hair dye foam evenly to the hair.” Fortunately all turned out well and we turned in around 1 so we could get up early (for the college world = 9 am) the next morning to do some sightseeing before she had class.

Took some pictures that morning then decided to take
Apparently electric shock is a problem at Whiskey Distilleries Full Image
the Jameson Irish Whiskey Distillery tour - the same decision made by all of the French rugby enthusiasts. They were very entertained by the explanation given by our Italian tour guide of how if you looked to the left you would see “Smithy the cat” sitting on top of some barrels - as mice used to be a problem in the grain warehouses and Smithy had been a good mouse catcher - totaling some 29 a day, upon his death he was stuffed and placed upon the barrels in the museum. Someone in the crowd then asked if “the man (mannequin)” climbing the ladder to the left had also been a good worker - to which the poor tour guide responded, “Jameson’s does not stuff people only cats.”

At the end of the tour we were “rewarded” with a glass of Jameson’s Irish whiskey, which hopefully will be the last glass of Irish whiskey I drink - they call whiskey firewater for a reason. We grabbed a quick lunch of Doner Kabob then Charlotte left me to go to class, but with a list of places to visit in her absence. I hit up Dublin Castle and garden then went to a St. Stephen's Green near Trinity College and Grafton Street. For all of the rain, cold weather and gray skies, it’s a nice surprise to see all of the shades of green and then bright spring flowers. As I was walking around taking pictures - the sketchy man effect kicked in - and an Algerian man named “Omir” became very interested in my “picture taking” he explained to me in rough English - picture taking . . . yeah ok sure . . . so that was the end of my garden tour and I made my ...