So I went to Dublin on my own this weekend, was brill!
Thursday: met a girl on the plane, she was cool and we bonded over how men are dickhead (not all of you, granted). In the evening met up with my friend David who lives over theer now, was ace! We went for a lovely Lebanese meal and wine then on for more drinks, can't believe how well we get on after about 8 years of not seeing eachother!
Friday: Wondered around a lot, went to the Natural history museum and for a nice early bird special meal in Temple Bar. Had a bit of an early night, talked to some Oz guys who arrived in my dorm who were pretty cool.
Saturday, woke up and walked past the scouse girls beds who were also in my dorm, on of them had fucking pulled and brought the guy back the the dorm!!! Luckily I slept through the whoreish behaviour, the Oz guys didn't though bless 'em! The rest of the day was spent walking around with the girl I met on the plane and her boyfriend, went into a quaint little coffee shop and witnessesed a 6 year old boy devour a chocolate cake slice in under a minute then mop the sauce up with his whole hand! We like him 
I went into the hostel's common room in the evening cos I had nothing to do but met a girl who was also on her own, then an Irish guy on his own! So we all went for a drink, tried Guinness for the first time, I really liked it!
Sunday: Went for an early morning walk cos woke up well early and discovered that nothing apart from one or two coffee shops are open in the whole of Dublin before 12noon on a Sunday! Met up with DexV33 and ravenousrose In the afternoon and kicked DexV33's ass at arcade motorbike riding whilst waiting for We then went for a lovely VERY filling meal in the Bad Ass Caf where we ordered way too much food, so I pissed off the waiter by asking for my leftovers to be doggy bagged so I could have the rest later in the hostel. In the evening I watched a Tommy Tiernen DVD with a guy from New Orleans and a random Irish guy that I met in the hostel.
Monday, Spent the morning travelling home with the New Orleans guy cos our planes were leaving at the same time
Was a brill weekend all round! really glad I did a practice 'traveling and staying hostles on my own' trip! and NOW it's under 6 weeks til California! LESS THAN 6 WEEKS! ARGH!YEY!ARGH!YEY!
HELP NEEDED FROM YOU BRISTOL PEOPLE!!!!
The Guy from New Orleans is called Matt, he and his girlfriend (who is from Denmark I think!) are moving to Bristol in June! He's a really nice guy and I'd really be grateful if one of you would be willing to get in touch with him and help him out with a bit of advice with best areas to look for accommodation, places not to go, that kind of thing. Let me know if any of you are willing to be nice and I'll message you his email addy.
EDIT: yes i did forget to take photos! i only took about 3 all weekend! duh me!
