Dublin (IV)

Unfortunately we couldn’t laze around and be hung-over in our beds all day because it was our last day in that hostel. We were supposed to be leaving Dublin that day, but for some reason I had accidentally booked our flight a day later. So after a hot shower, we headed over to the hostel we had booked at 12€ each for our extra night. We took another little nap there, not really caring how actually… sketchy it was. After the nap we had to get out, plus, we were hungry. A little stroll through what appeared to be a business section because everything was closed, and we found ourselves staring at the menus outside of the ‘Mona Lisa’s’. Now those Irish people know how to lake garlic ciabatta bread. I could’ve eaten three of them and had that as my meal. But I also had lasagne, and even better it was a student special. Right next to the restaurant was a little cinema… pourquoi pas? Inside there was as sign that read, “In the interest of hygiene please refrain from placing tickets in your mouth”. I took of a picture of it, and it’s being loaded onto photobucket as I type this up. We ended up seeing Eastern Promise, which was really good, with Viggo Mortensen and Naomi Watts. At one point Dee gasped really loudly, and the entire audience (maybe 20 people), myself include, were laughing at her.

Still not wanted to go back to the hostel, we found a pub close to it instead. While there I wrote a little something to remind myself of it when I finally got to writing about:

So, I am writing this in a little pub in Dublin near our hostel. I’m sitting at a bar and to my right in the next room is a duo, playing fiddle and guitar. They’re playing some really Irish sounding stuff, and this atmosphere and feeling; this is why I wanted to come to Dublin.

It was a nice experience. Then we walked to the hostel. There was a sketchy-looking guy on the corner of the street, and after we walked by, he walked after us until he was literally right behind Dee’s left shoulder. We stopped walking. He stops, then sees us giving him looks and says, “oh sorry, I didn’t mean to disturb you” and after a few moments staggers off in the same direction. We kept a safe distance behind him, but then he went into our hostel. Shit. After a few moments he doesn’t come out, so we just go in, and the guy at the desk said, yes, he is staying there. Then we spent about half an hour in the company of a schizophrenic and thee semi-sketchy guys, but the details are too long for me to want to write them out.

A little while after getting to bed, the girl in the one under one came in. Then she changed. To put I nicely, Dee put lotion on her hands and slept with them over her face, while I slept with a bit of lavender I had plucked earlier on my pillow. If you’ve ever seen the move “The labyrinth”, it smelled like she had been dipped in the Bog of Eternal Stench. No joke. Aside from that the night was well slept. However at the crack of 8am the next morning: hammering, stone cutting and soldering… right outside our window. By 8h20 we had had enough, and we were walking out the door at 8h30. We stopped at a little place for breakfast, and then just hopped on a bus to the airport. Everything went smoothly there, and I took some cool pictures once we got over England.

Once in England we decided to get some pizza before our next flight. And my god they had: barbeque chicken pizza. They were 8£ each, something I would shoot my own foot over in the states, but really, what choice did we have? Then we thought we were about to miss our flight. When they brought out the pizza, we asked for the check. When they brought the check we gave them the money and asked for boxes. We boxed the ½ pizzas that were left and booked it through Gatwick. Supposedly it takes fifteen minutes to get from where we were to our boarding gate, but we made it in five. We still had to wait about 20 minutes though because boarding was late. We took that time to finish our pizzas and fan ourselves with the boxes. Guess who looked like the biggest assholes there? We did! As we were boarding the guy that checked Dee in asked if she had finished the whole pizza. Hell yeah!

With a final sigh and so long we buckled our belts for take-off.