{"id":3505,"date":"2010-10-17T14:41:28","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T21:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=3505"},"modified":"2010-10-17T14:41:28","modified_gmt":"2010-10-17T21:41:28","slug":"the-vikings-of-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2010\/10\/the-vikings-of-dublin\/","title":{"rendered":"The Vikings of Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"

With all the hours of travelling under our belts and not a whole lot of sleep, not much else happened tourism-wise on Sunday night after the Ubuntu 10.10 release party in Dublin. On Monday morning MJ and I enjoyed a quick breakfast together before he had to head off to work and I to meet up with Laura Czajkowski<\/a> to start my sight-seeing! I have to say, while Dublin is quite the tourist-friendly city, having a local to spend a couple of days with and show me around was quite a treat, not to mention that Laura just plain rocks. The first thing on the list was a Viking Splash Tour<\/a>, since Laura had never been on it and in spite of them existing in cities all over the world, I’d never actually been on a DUKW tour either. It was a fun tour with a lively and pun-filled tour guide. The water portion of it was quite short, just bringing us around the end of the grand canal, but it was enough to enjoy a breeze and a bit of a splash as we entered the water.<\/p>\n

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From there it was lunch at Hairy Lemon Cafe, where I went for fish and chips and ended up with their excellent soup and sandwich lunch. From there it was a lovely walk around town, my first ride on the Luas<\/a>, and walk around the grounds of the National Museum<\/a> which was, alas, closed on Mondays.<\/p>\n

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We then headed down to Trinity Capital Hotel bar so Laura could prep and give her Ubuntu Open Week<\/a> presentation on IRC. It was a great little place for such a break, free wifi, comfy seats, and they will bring drinks for as long as you want to order them (although I admit only drinking soda on this occasion). MJ met us at the bar so we could head out to dinner over at The Brazen Head<\/a>, the oldest pub in Ireland (est 1198), where I actually did have fish and chips, and my second (and third) Guinness of my trip.<\/p>\n

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A wonderful finish to my apparently very viking-themed Dublin day!<\/p>\n

Tuesday was on to the zoo and to search for leprechauns, but that will have to wait for another blog post! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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