Now as I referenced above, my sister Jamuna and I have been traveling around Europe for a month. We have been to about fifteen cities and are just now on our way to our last destination of Frankfurt, Germany. First though, I must rewind and start from the beginning. Obviously, we started in Belfast where my sister came and met me while I was still in student accommodation. Since we had free housing we chose to just go to Dublin for the day and then come back. We actually got up early, got on the bus and were in Dublin by midday. We really just walked around the city for a while as our only main attraction was to make it to the Jameson Distillery which I hadnt made it to in my time there. What was especially cool about this was Muna’s friends in the restaurant industry were able to get us free admission! The tour was much less extravagant than the Guinness Brewery Tour but it was still pretty awesome. Jamuna got chosen to be a group participant at the end that ended up being kind of cool. Basically at the end of the tour a group of like six volunteers got to sit at this special table and taste 4 different Whiskeys. I can only remember two of the kinds, there was a Jack Daniels, and Jameson. At the end of tasting they had to choose which one they liked the best and Muna chose Jameson. (Good choice considering we were in their distillery). I had my first delightful experience with Whiskey this day as well where when we got a taster at the end I tried it with Ginger Ale and actually really enjoyed it, surprising since I usually hate Whiskey.
After the tour we just wondered around the streets of Dublin, let Muna take pictures. We went to this random little bar in a hotel she was recommended that wasn’t that great, where I drank about half a pint of Guinness to commemorate my time there and the fact it would be the last glass of true Guinness I would drink for a very long time. About at this time we started to get hungry but didn’t want to spend a lot so we came up with the idea of Fish and Chips since that’s something Ireland is somewhat famous for. As we walked around Temple Bar (the most touristy area in Dublin), we randomly stopped and asked a bouncer man where the best Fish & Chips were. Instead of telling us his bar, which we expected, he told us about this small take away place called Burdocks. We went there, and let me tell you, he was not lying. We ordered ONE order and literally an entire fried fish was handed to us wrapped in paper and real potato fries. It was incredible! Unfortunately, the weather was pretty cold and we definitely thought it was going to rain on us and there was no seating in this place. We choose to eat on this concrete wall by a park and just dig. It was so good that we decided we wanted more! When we went back the Irish guys laughed at us in their jolly nice way and we ordered “fish bites”, assuming they would be smaller then the giant fish we had just been handed. But no; it ended up being just as much food as the first fish we had bought and once we sat for a minute we were stuffed. Luckily, it didn’t go to waste and as we were walking back to the bus station I gave the whole extra meal to a nice homeless man who accepted it super graciously. That made me feel super good and like it was worth the extra money we accidentally spent. After that we simply headed back to the bus station and back to Belfast for the night before flying to London.
No comments:
Post a Comment