Off to the guiness factory today and in the RAIN!! It was a number 123 bus but they pronounce it one, two tree, so funny! Off we hopped and into the factory- it is shaped like a Guiness glass. The first brewer of 'porter' as it was known was of course Alfed guiness, who passed the trade to his son, the first yeast that was used by him a strain has actually been kept and is guarded in the company safe, just so it tastes the same as it did 200 years ago. The proces...

travelled out of Dublin to Belfast by bus- took forever, and we had the hottest bus!! We were down to our tee shirts in no time at all. It was hilarious on the bus as we had a group of irish lads who had been celebrating a stag do and had been drinking rather alot, well cutting a long story short, one needed a rest area! He tried in one bus station- line too long so we had to pull over on the M1 and he did his comfort break by the side of the bus with all these l...

we are not in dublin anymore we caught a long and very hot bus to Belfast in the RAIN!! We are off to Giants Causeway tomorrow and the carrick - a - rede bridge in N ireland. The bridge looks scary but I think I will cross it I know the kids are all game. The Youth Hostel we have in N Ireland is so much better than the one in Dublin it is clean and has very nice facilities, a cafe, clean linen and the only drawback is shared toilet and showers- oh well. We are of...

Well we finally got here to Dublin. The Ryan air flight was delayed by an hour so that really ticked us off as we could have had anothr 1hours sleep and we need it, especially Hats who is jet lagged. The airport at Bournemouth is tiny and hasn't changed a bit since my last visit to it 20 years ago. The flight wsa non eventful and they charge you for absolutely everything- even going to the restrooms( joking!!) We got to Dublin via the airport link bus really chea...