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Dublin alone for a few days

  • 17-06-2014 4:08pm
    #1
    linzi765
    Registered Users Posts: 3 ✭


    Hi!

    Im Lynsey 28 from Durham.
    I m going to be in Dublin for a few days over the summer alone. Well, heading over with my ex and our baby so he can see his family but I don't want to be away from my daughter for the whole time hence me going.

    His family live in Malahide , and I will be staying in a hotel (not sure where yet ).

    Has anyone got any ideas of stuff I could do during the day by myself? Or evening when I haven't got my daughter with me?

    I am thinking of contacting a guy I used to go to uni with just to see if I can tag along with him for something. But seen as though we havcnt spoke in about 5 years I might not . haha

    Anyway, heading over in August.

    Ideas? Im prob not the type of person that would sit in a bar alone, well a busy bar at least.

    THANKS XX

    Lynsey
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  • #2
    WellThen?
    Registered Users Posts: 358 ✭✭WellThen?


    Hi there,

    You can check this website out and see if there are any events on when you're here. Most people go to them not knowing anyone either and there is loads of stuff to do from drinking to sightseeing.

    http://www.meetup.com/


  • #3
    linzi765
    Registered Users Posts: 3 ✭linzi765


    thanks! Ive just been looking at groups for back at home too x


  • #4
    hynesie08
    Registered Users Posts: 9,675 ✭✭✭hynesie08


    Ok, help us out a little here. Are you looking for day/night things, tourist attractions, museums, beaches, pubs, clubs?

    Basically if someone was visiting you what are the kinda places you'd bring them? Might help us narrow the search a little.

    (sorry if that sounds dickish)


  • #5
    linzi765
    Registered Users Posts: 3 ✭linzi765


    Just things to do on my own! I was hoping people would have ideas.
    I think I will probably stay around the city centre , so narrows it down a bit. Not a museum fan.

    I guess I'm going to ending up aimlessly wandering the shops and then eating!
    I tried the meet up website the PP mentioned but doesn't come up with anything for dublin.

    Maybe some insider knowledge of something similar to that where I can meet people whilst there.


  • #6
    gugleguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,959 ✭✭✭gugleguy


    linzi765 wrote: »
    I think I will probably stay around the city centre , so narrows it down a bit. Not a museum fan.

    I guess I'm going to ending up aimlessly wandering the shops and then eating!
    I tried the meet up website the PP mentioned but doesn't come up with anything for dublin.
    Yes looks like that will be the extent for you. The other day, I bought a book entitled "Quiet New York", which is about New York and is focused for someone visiting to the Big Apple on their own.
    Dublin is not really a big enough city for an equivalent publication to be published, sorry..
    Dublin has become a city which is prioritised towards the group tour, and the people you see on the Viking Tour buses,(unmistakable Yellow Vehicles), Red Line bus tours and Original Dublin Bus Tour.


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  • #7
    TrueDub
    Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 2,635 Mod ✭✭✭✭TrueDub


    Absolutely nothing stopping you doing the bus tours or other attraction tours by yourself, and you might end up meeting people that way. Alternatively, look into things like the Literary Pub Crawl or even the theatres?


  • #8
    maguic24
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,790 ✭✭✭maguic24


    linzi765 wrote: »

    I guess I'm going to ending up aimlessly wandering the shops and then eating!
    I tried the meet up website the PP mentioned but doesn't come up with anything for dublin.

    Nothing on meetup for Dublin........whhhhaaatttt? Don't think so! There's a gazillion groups on there organising events all the time. Just type in your interest and you're sorted.

    Yes I use meetup.


  • #9
    petethebrick
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,031 ✭✭✭petethebrick


    For a night out try one of the pub crawls. There are different companies doing them and plenty of people do them on their own I think.

    http://www.vikingpubcrawl.com/


  • #10
    JuliusCaesar
    Registered Users Posts: 4,882 ✭✭✭JuliusCaesar


    maguic24 wrote: »
    Nothing on meetup for Dublin........whhhhaaatttt? Don't think so! There's a gazillion groups on there organising events all the time.

    this might be a better link: http://www.meetup.com/cities/ie/dublin/

    There must be over 200 groups on there now.


  • #11
    maguic24
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,790 ✭✭✭maguic24


    JuliusCaesar wrote: »
    this might be a better link: http://www.meetup.com/cities/ie/dublin/

    There must be over 200 groups on there now.

    Something crazy like that! It's fantastic!


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  • #12
    CelticRambler
    Registered Users Posts: 6,683 ✭✭✭CelticRambler


    linzi765 wrote: »
    I think I will probably stay around the city centre , so narrows it down a bit. Not a museum fan.

    If you're in the city centre, drop into the National Museum anyway. It's free, there are no queues and you never know - maybe you'll take a fancy to the heaps of gold or the bog-bodies. :)


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