Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Irish holidays


The guys at Four Seasons know how to make you feel welcome :
I just came back from Ireland. Lovely country that is. We arrived in Dublin, got an upgrade with Avis, and stayed at the Four Seasons Hotel there, we met Rhys, the head concierge. A very nice chap, he got us a nice pub to spend our first evening there : The Oliver St John's Gogarty. Try to pronounce its name after a few pints!
I enjoyed a nice fish and chips whilst drinking Kilkenny beer.It could not have started better! Even manage to have sex after that! Great holidays indeed.
Next day we were out sightseeing and I came across that important piece of news.
The hell with Isreal and Lebanon, there's things happening here that will make the hair on your back stand up! They even did a big thing on the TV because last sunday was the last show of Top of the Pops on BBC which was broadcasted for 42 years. You could imagine the impact on our modern world!
Apart from drinking beer, eating greasy stuff and having sex, we squeezed in a few visit in the countryside. On our last day we did a 12 km hike in Glendalough. There was 600 steps like this to go up to the top (I know it because a crazy German hiker told me it was 600, and one thing I know is : don't argue with the Germans). You can see the lake in the background where we started, pretty impressive. What's pretty impressive is that I could walk the whole 12 km and not have my muscle aching the next day! To celebrate I'm off to the gym (because fish and chips and beer does not make you slimer!)