So much to say!

I will try to sum up Ireland in a couple of paragraphs. I am so glad I went even though it was less than 48 hours. We had a group of 14 people but 2 did their own thing and the rest split up into 2 groups of 6. We had a very odd experience Friday night. When we got there around 10pm, we went to a restaurant that was just about to close, but the manager took us in anyway and fed us all these amazing hamburgers and gave us all free Guinness glasses, as my first Ireland souvenir. We went out to the oldest pubs in town called the Temple Bar area, with authentic cobblestone streets. It was freezing! We didn´t stay there for long because there were a ton of French there due to the French-Irish Rugby match (which is a big deal). The French were very strange, being a tad obsessed with feet. One guy stole the shoe of a girl in our group, sniffed it, poured beer into it and drank...weird. So that was our first night in Ireland. It is soo expensive. Our hotel was on the outskirts of town and it cost 50 euros for 6 of us to ride back in a taxi.

The next day was so awesome, though. While one group spent 4 hours in the Guinness factory (ridiculous), our group took a tour bus ALL over town, seeing cathedrals and going shopping. It was so neat. We stopped by the Guinness factory and took a tour, since that´s the thing to do in Dublin and at the top got a free glass of genuine Guinness. That night, we met up with the guys we met in Alicante that happened to live in Dublin and they took us to all the good places. We ended up crashing at their house for the night and in the morning caught the plane back. What a crazy time.

So that´s the news from Ireland, or at least the short version. I will write another blog later to sum up events here in the homeland. I´ve just gotta say, comparing Dublin and Alicante, I have a new appreciation for the price of drinks and transportation, as well as the beautiful weather here and the proximity to the beach. I love Alicante.