13.05.2023 Stay in Dublin

In the morning I got everything packed and ready. I had bought a bottle of wine and a box of chocolate for Vincent and Bernie as a goodbye gift.

They told me they were happy to have me and I can visit anytime when I come back to Ireland. And I also got a goodbye gift from them in the form of a new winter hat, a set of playing cards, a goodbye card, and some maps for documents from the horse farm we visited.

Combined with the sleeping bag, the shirts from the Clonmel Kidz Club, and the hoodie I bought back at the husky farm, my bag is ready to explode.

I hope I don't get anything in Iceland.

I also said goodbye to Svea and Hannah and wished them all the best for the rest of their projects. Jade and Sasha were already out and about when I left.

Vincent brought me to the bus stop and the bus actually arrived 10 minutes early. That never happened before.

I got out in the city center of Dublin after a 4-hour bus ride, arms full with all my bags and phone in hand to find my way to the hostel. Even though I was asked by 3 different people if I had any spare change or if I could buy them some food.

Thankfully, the hostel was very close and I was able to check in with no problems. Then the man at the desk gave me a kind of complicated and confusing description of how to get to my room. But he said that it would be fine since there were signs everywhere.

I thought it couldn't be that hard to find a room... Right?

This hostel is massive, it seems almost impossible just how big this hostel is. There are stairs, rooms, corners, and turns everywhere. I was thinking of a small hostel in the middle of Dublin, but I had entered a maze.

Every wall was decorated with different artwork and there were places where you would come across a bunch of people walking around or places where there was nobody.

It felt like I could spend the entire day in the hostel and still would not have seen every corner of it.

They also offered me to join a pub crawl which I did not do.

Instead, I walked through Dublin just going to wherever seemed interesting, I found a very cool-looking board game store, a Lego store, city parks, ancient buildings.

After dinner, I found a place where you could play board games that actually turned out to be a hostel. If I had known that sooner, I would have probably stayed there instead.

But I still played a round of Catan with a guy named Will who is also a huge D&D fan since he has all the dice tattooed on his back.

Afterwards, I headed back to my hostel and got ready to sleep. My flight leaves at 12:15 tomorrow so I don't have to rush in the morning.