{"id":3638,"date":"2015-08-03T00:47:04","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T23:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/?p=3638"},"modified":"2019-02-14T12:01:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T11:01:31","slug":"a-few-days-in-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/a-few-days-in-dublin\/","title":{"rendered":"A few Days in Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>25 years ago I did meet Saran at Linda&#8217;s tables in Bangkok behind the Wat. A few years ago she did invite me to come to London. By the time I told her I come over she sold her house and it did not work out. 2 years later she is in Dublin and invited me again. And finally we did meet again. <br \/>Now this is not the usual summer vacation. Back at the HQ it is 30+ and they have 18 at the most. Nights are down to single digits &#8211; brrrr.<br \/>Saran gave me a Leap card and I went downtown to see what it is all about.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2015\/dublin\/001.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"Dublin 2015\"\/><br \/>Reminds me of Paris. There is water going and traffic left and right. Only here you have no space to walk &#8211; too much traffic on this planet. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2015\/dublin\/002.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"397\" alt=\"Dublin 2015\"\/><br \/>You still find loads of old buildings &#8211; but there are loads of new ones mixed too. Not sure where the real center of town is &#8211; if you only walk you never have that feeling. If 2015 is your 1st time you might notice a billion tour buses and tourists groups all over the place. T-shirt shops and what not. I have to do better research next time I go downtown but I was not really happy with all that. Strange since if you walk in Paris it is no different. Hmmmmm&#8230;.. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2015\/dublin\/003.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"Dublin 2015\"\/><br \/>Guess this is where most of the tourist roam&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2015\/dublin\/004.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"548\" alt=\"Dublin 2015\"\/> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2015\/dublin\/005.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"Dublin 2015\"\/><br \/>Not a lot of interesting graffiti so far. Lets see if I find some the next few days.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2015\/dublin\/006.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"Dublin 2015\"\/><br \/>I like that one <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2015\/dublin\/007.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"Dublin 2015\"\/> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2015\/dublin\/008.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"440\" alt=\"Dublin 2015\"\/><br \/>And that one&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2015\/dublin\/009.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"Dublin 2015\"\/><br \/>The end of the rainbow. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2015\/dublin\/010.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"586\" alt=\"Dublin 2015\"\/><br \/>Keep Clear! <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2015\/dublin\/011.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"Dublin 2015\"\/><br \/>Irish toilet graffiti. <br \/>The one on the left reads:<br \/>Rory Mc Gee<br \/>\nRest in Peace<br \/>\n\u201cAlway in my thought\u2019s for-ever in my heart,.\u201d\u009d<br \/>\nmissing you more each and every day<br \/>\nLoving you for ever <br \/>\nTill we meet again<br \/>\nLove<br \/>\nxxxxxJakiexxxxx<\/p>\n<p> so sad &#8211; to read it right here&#8230;. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2015\/dublin\/012.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"361\" alt=\"Dublin 2015\"\/><br \/>For the tourist they do everything&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2015\/dublin\/013.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"775\" alt=\"Dublin 2015\"\/><br \/>Need a break? There is a church round the bend for you! <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2015\/dublin\/014.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"789\" alt=\"Dublin 2015\"\/> <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2015\/dublin\/015.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"501\" alt=\"Dublin 2015\"\/><br \/>Once the tallest windmill in the world!  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2015\/dublin\/016.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"Dublin 2015\"\/><br \/>No clue where I took that picture? <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2015\/dublin\/017.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"Dublin 2015\"\/><br \/>Once things moved with trains at the Guinness factory! <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hastenteufel.name\/pix\/2015\/dublin\/018.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" alt=\"Dublin 2015\"\/><br \/>Did not want to fork out 18\u20ac AND wait in line for about 60 min. to get a ticket at the Guinness factory. So I did opt for a pint of fish bladder cleared brew in the next pub.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>25 years ago I did meet Saran at Linda&#8217;s tables in Bangkok behind the Wat. A few years ago she did invite me to come to London. By the time I told her I come over she sold her house and it did not work out. 2 years later she is in Dublin and invited&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kb_optimizer_status":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[344,224,343],"tags":[346,463,345],"class_list":["post-3638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dublin","category-europe","category-ireland","tag-dublin","tag-europe","tag-ireland"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Marc Hastenteufel","author_link":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/author\/marc\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hastenteufel.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}