Pub Crawl

Didn't think about writing yesterday so will have to catch up today. Wednesday night I went for supper with another Australian I met, Karen and we had a great supper at Matt the Millers, then came back and spent a couple of hours in the sitting room with a whole room full of travellers, all swapping stories. Couldn't sleep after the sitting room closed at 11:00pm and didn't want to disturb my bunkmates with the overhead light, so sat on the huge stairwell reading for about an hour.

Met an interesting guy here this week, an archaeologist working near here from Belfast. the accent he has is way different than the one they have around here in the Republic. He was such a funny character with so many stories to tell, and so knowledgeable about this country's history. His name is Chris Conway, and he's even co-authored a few journal articles so I hope to look them up when I get home.

Yesterday morning I met yet another Australian girl, Sarah who walked downtown with me, then we ended up meeting again later and going to see some of the sights. We saw Black Abbey, and St. Canice's Cathedral, then came back to the hostel and met up with some others we had met in the sitting room the night before and so all went out for lunch at Matt the Millers (good food!). After that we all went out to Rothe House which is a museum consisting of three townhouses facing one another in a courtyard, with a few little courtyards off to each side (hard to explain), Their exhibits were ok, but mostly more recent stuff, and nothing really all that fascinating. They start you off with a cheezy video too, which was poorly homemade, and not really worth the 17 minutes.

After Rothe House, we all went our separate ways, except for Beth and Rob (British) and we went to check out Black Abbey and St. Canice's. After supper we gained a new traveller, someone Sarah had met a couple of nights ago in another town - Josie from Montreal - Yay! My first Canadian traveller in a hostel (I forgot about Phyllis). Turns out she is a bit of a smug person who I don't really like that much, but it was only our first meeting yesterday. We all ate supper together - Sarah, Josie, and I. Beth is staying with a friend for the weekend, but we all met up for the movies last night and saw The Mexican with Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts. It was a really good movie, and we laughed like hyenas.

After the movie, we headed out for a pint (what a surprise) at a pub across from the hostel called Anna Conda who had some Irish music (live) stayed for a pint, but then I left early and put my sick self to bed.

Just saw Phyllis who I met in Galway! She strolled into the kitchen and turns out she is on our dorm, so that's fun. Must go see if my laundry is done.