Seven Days In Dublin In 2007

This is a sixteen year old post from Seven In with some pictures I took while I was there. You may enjoy it.

This is how I used to write and what I initially set up the blog for so apologies for grammatical errors, spelling mistakes and the rest.

Also as it's sixteen years old a lot of these places may no longer be there, but hope you enjoy this.

Seven Days In Dublin #1

The real reason for setting up this blog was the mad things you tend to see when you're away from home on holiday.

In January 2007 I spent a week in Dublin, near a place called Dún Laoghaire. It's pronounced Dun Leery !!

It was at the station there I saw a great example of the dual language type fun, not exactly Samuel L Jackson, but funny.

Dublin is an excellent place to go, but has become very cosmopolitan and wealthy over the past few years. If you're travelling a lot by public transport it's worth getting a DART (Dublin Area Rapid Transport) that does you for the buses & trains.

Going in one night I was on a bus surrounded by Italians and Poles, and remember thinking "Kinell, It's like I'm in a foreign country!!!". I then remembered that I actually was. Doh!!!

We were in a hotel outside Dalkey which is a pleasant seaside village. In one of the pubs, I went to the loo and saw this, thinking that's an accident waiting to happen. Chewing Gum, Jelly Beans and Condoms in the same machine after ten pints. Though after ten pints the condoms wouldn't be much use to most blokes anyway.

There's a rather good pub called The Druid's Chair that serves excellent Guinness and has some excellent views out over the Irish Sea. Like this:

In Dalkey itself, we found an excellent Italian restaurant called Benitos!!. The war pictures on the wall should have alerted us to the inspiration behind the name. The food and service were great, so it's well worth tracking down if you're in that neck of the woods.

Back in Dun Leery, we went to a restaurant, and this was the menu. Fine but the cost of two courses separately was 2 Euros cheaper than buying them together. I asked the waitress about it but no explanation was forthcoming.

Another amazing site in Dublin is the 600 Foot (or is it metres) Spike in the main street. It's lit up at night and looks mental.

The name of this place tickled me, not that I'm likely to frequent such a place with my excellent taste in food. Though I think they're a chain as I started to see a lot more of them (It wasn't the Guinness, honest)

Another fun thing was this old French Beer advertisement, which I'm sure would go down well these days, well with most of the punters I know!

If you're drinking or looking for nightlife in Dublin, Temple Bar is the place to head for, However, the main pub seems to be Gogerty's Bar, and while if you're looking for "company" it's fine, but the Guinness was atrocious. We started a Musical Pub Crawl there and the band drank water. Subsequently, they were on the Black Stuff, but obviously had the same opinion of Gogerty's that I did. The Musical Pub Crawl was well worth doing, Apparently, they do a literary one as well, but we didn't get a chance to sample that.

Here ends the 2007 trip to Dublin, hope that you have enjoyed it.