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Dublin, Belfast, Galway. We rented a car at the Dublin airport for five days.
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We slept over in the suburbs of Dublin at some Italian guys. Later on, we figured out that they didn’t know how many of us were coming neither when.. |
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.., but they didn’t mind at all and just kept on saying “Enjoy Italian hospitality!” Piedro & Marco. |
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The Italians took us directly after arrival to some private party.. |
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..full of IBM employees.. |
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At the Italians in the morning.
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Dublin City Tour: there are no striking sights to be seen. But much more than in all the other cities we saw later on.. here, the Main Post Office..
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.. main shopping street..
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..River Liffey and Custom House |
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..Trinity College -the most famous university in Ireland founded in 1592..
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.., but I expected more than just few older houses..
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..well, it is not Oxford, but at lest Samuel Beckett studied here. |
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Grafton St. --the most famous in Dublin.
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Streets in the city centre didn’t look like in the capital of one of the richest countries in Europe..but they have some charm I enjoyed.. rough but frank.. |
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St. Patrick's Cathedral.. |
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Christchurch Cathedral - founded by the Vikings in 1038.. |
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City centre of Dublin at night..
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..Temple Bar, part of the city centre full of pubs and people.. and the best experience in Dublin.. |
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..smoking is not allowed in the pubs anymore, but almost each pub has special courtyard for nicotine addicts – like this one. |
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Belfast. Not much for tourists actually.. here the main street.. (a friend form Prague was our guide)
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..Belfast Cathedral at one end.. |
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..and City Hall at the other. |
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The best place was Belfast Queens University.. |
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We also intentionally drove in a city quarter where protestant fundamentalists live. Graffiti on the walls like: “Ulster will always remain British. No surrender.” |
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..Ulster Young Militants..
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..guys with riles.. quite frightening as I was driving car with registration plate of the Irish Republic.. |
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Stormont House: the Parliament of Northern Ireland near Belfast.
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Decent evening in Dublin. |
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On the way to the west coast.. driving on the left side is more or less manageable, but I can not recommend you start practising it on the busiest street from the Dublin airport to the city centre as I did.. |
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We wanted to visit some sights during the journey and thus took side roads.. some times smaller than expected. The quality of the roads was really bad - Polish people said that they felt like at home: only few kilometres of motorways and big holes everywhere.. |
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The width of this road was sufficient just for one car .. the road sign indicates suicide speed limit.
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The countryside was great! everything was green, stone walls.. |
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This place is exactly in the middle of the island and is called Clonmacnoise.. |
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..we arrived just before sunset.. |
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Green man on the green isle..the jacket way not mine.. |
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Galway, we spent there just around two hours.. there is really not much to see..
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