Happy New Year
Happy New Year to everyone!! I hope you all had a great New Year and good start to 2007.
Firstly, congratulations to Australia for winning the Ashes 5 - 0. Not a surprising result but still good to see!
Ben came over to Dublin on the 29th for a few days. We went on a mini pub crawl/walking tour of Dublin on his first day here. Had a look at Temple Bar (the most touristy area in Dublin, full of pubs), saw the River Liffey, strolled round Trinity College, went to Ron Blacks (the smallest pub in Dublin) and went to the Woolshed (the Aussie pub) for some nachos.
The next day we did the 'Porterhouse Challange'. The Porterhouse is a pub which brews its own beer and they have 10 beers on tap. We sat down at lunch time and set about trying to drink a pint of all 10 of them. The first 9 were fine.
When we came to the 10th they had run out so we substituted it with a special beer celebrating the fact that the pub was 10 years old that year (that we later found out was 10% alcohol). This kind of ruined our night. After the beer we started to feel sick and went straight home and fell asleep at about 9. We slept for 15 hours until noon the next day and did not feel like going out at all.
However it was New Years Eve so we were kind of obliged to. We went to a party at a friends of mine and I didn't drink much because I was feeling sick from the day before but I still had a good night. Ben was worse than me and managed to fall asleep at about 11.
Last week Dave Lawler came over for a quick visit from Wales so I went out for dinner with him which was cool.
I have also started work. Working at a health insurance company in the centre of town. The first few days have been training and have been really slow and easy (hopefully the actual job will be like that). I'm not sure exactly what I will be doing but as long as its money and I can save some to go travelling once spring comes and it starts to warm up I don't really care.
That's it from me for now, see you later alligators.
Firstly, congratulations to Australia for winning the Ashes 5 - 0. Not a surprising result but still good to see!
Ben came over to Dublin on the 29th for a few days. We went on a mini pub crawl/walking tour of Dublin on his first day here. Had a look at Temple Bar (the most touristy area in Dublin, full of pubs), saw the River Liffey, strolled round Trinity College, went to Ron Blacks (the smallest pub in Dublin) and went to the Woolshed (the Aussie pub) for some nachos.
The next day we did the 'Porterhouse Challange'. The Porterhouse is a pub which brews its own beer and they have 10 beers on tap. We sat down at lunch time and set about trying to drink a pint of all 10 of them. The first 9 were fine.
When we came to the 10th they had run out so we substituted it with a special beer celebrating the fact that the pub was 10 years old that year (that we later found out was 10% alcohol). This kind of ruined our night. After the beer we started to feel sick and went straight home and fell asleep at about 9. We slept for 15 hours until noon the next day and did not feel like going out at all.
However it was New Years Eve so we were kind of obliged to. We went to a party at a friends of mine and I didn't drink much because I was feeling sick from the day before but I still had a good night. Ben was worse than me and managed to fall asleep at about 11.
Last week Dave Lawler came over for a quick visit from Wales so I went out for dinner with him which was cool.
I have also started work. Working at a health insurance company in the centre of town. The first few days have been training and have been really slow and easy (hopefully the actual job will be like that). I'm not sure exactly what I will be doing but as long as its money and I can save some to go travelling once spring comes and it starts to warm up I don't really care.
That's it from me for now, see you later alligators.
posted by pete @ 3:16 AM
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