Today was playing tourist - after breakfast we decided to walk down O'Connell St and purchase a hop on, hop off bus ticket which takes you all over Dublin's city showing you over 28 different tourist locations along the way. The highlights for us included Trinity College, St Stephen's Green, The Guinness Storehouse factory (including the tour and mandatory Guinness) - the tour finishes up at the Gravity Bar and whilst you are drinking your complimentary pint of G...

Not much time to do anything this morning - just enough time to pack, check out how to get to the airport and have some breakfast. We decided to catch the local Roissey Bus to the airport - this leaves just around the corner from our hotel and costs 10 euro each to the airport - we decided on this option as we do not have to carry our luggage up and down the subway stations - some of which have great distances to navigate. Bus to the airport took about 50 min...

Nadeen's Paris birthday today.....last night we celebrated her Melbourne birthday so today it is her Paris birthday..... Took another walk down the Champs Elysees - you just do not tire of seeing this place - then walked to the Louvre. Planning is everything they say, as after reaching the Louvre, we found out it wasnt open on Tuesdays!!! Not to worry, we got a real appreciation of how big this place is and the 3 hours that we had allocated to visiting the museu...

First thing to do this morning was to find somewhere to have breakfast. We walked around the corner and found a nice cafe and sat down to a hearty breakfast of a croissant, coffee, orange juice an omlette and some toast - ready to attack the day! Off we walked to the Eiffel Tower - this looks rather unimpressive from a distance, however, once you are up close, it is an amazing structure. There were crowds lined up everywhere to go up the tower, so we gave it a m...

We didnt have much time left in Amsterdam - basically enough time to do some quick washing, head out for breakfast whilst hitting a laudromat to dry our clothes - met an Aussie guy in the laundrette who looked after our clothes for us whilst we had some breakfast. Checked out of the hotel and caught the train to the airport - no problems with the train and arrived at the airport to check in - one minor hiccup when the computer terminal did not recognise our book...