Going to be in Ireland for 2 months, help me out :)

Kasabian wrote: »

This thread should go well.

I was planning on watching the golf

Oranage2 wrote: »

I don't know why anyone would come to Ireland as a tourist - the place is crap, uncultured, crap, expensive, crap, lame, cold, crap and most of all crap.

Go to London, france, Prague, Poland. All better value for money.

crazyderk wrote: »

I think you should do the touristy thing for the first week its all part of a city experience and helps you get your bearings!
Temple bar is good yes it can be more expensive but its not a rip off and sometimes during the week can be the only place with a bit of atmosphere and if you have a few drinks before you go out (as is the style in these times) its not that much more expensive!

A lot of people told me that Dublin can be quite hard to get around due to 2 things

1 Street signs are a bit of a pain and not always there!

2 one street will completely change to another street without any hint of doing so!
example your traveling down Nassau St in Dublin and then BAM your on Suffolk st and your all like WTF mate? what just happened? where am I? I think its time I went for a pint! (hit up O'Neills at the end of Suffolk St)

Speaking of pints and good pints!

rule of thumb is the ****tier looking the pub the better the pint of Guinness! its all a balance of trying not to get killed and getting a good pint! lol

Don't ever drink Guinness in a night club!

some of my favourite places to try are

Keoghs just off Grafton St on South Anne St - a real old fashioned pub that still has a schnug with a seperate entrance for the ladies (cuz thats how it was in those days!

The other side of Grafton st then you have Bruxells a mix of Regular bar/Indie/heavy Metal depending on what section you go into!

Sporting events hit Sinnotts at the top of Grafton st under the St Stephens Green shopping centre!

Keeping in the going South tradition is Harcourt St and a couple of good clubs are Dicey Rileys D2 and Copper face Jacks (ask any Irish person about Copper Face Jacks aka Slappers and you will see the face palm hear the groan see the smile (cuz theyve been there and pulled!) and hear the horror stories but again I say embrace the culture now matter how dirty it gets!

you'll find that youll get to know the pubs you like by trying them out if youve got two months, youve got plenty of time!

Things to see and do, again why not hit some of the touristy stuff, theyre touristy stuff for a reason! have a look at some of the tours!

And Don't be afraid to travel a little bit further a field

2 differences to remember while travelling Ireland vs North America

We're much much smaller than you when the guys said go to Galway its like just under 20 euro (by Bus) to get to Galway or Cork and takes roughly 3-4 hours

Hostels (if your a cheap and cheerful kind of person) can be cheap clean safe and quite basic and again cheap, I know hostels in the states are considered a no-no sometimes! but in Ireland and Europe you can be safe enough but do try and read some reviews online first!)

If thats still to far a field, take the local train called the DART (Dublin area rapid transit) to Howth - Malahide - Dun Laoghaire - Bray (about 40 mins in either direction)

Nice towns to see and some nice things to see (leave the Bray town jokes out please)

I think thats all for the moment

By judging from your pic in your gallery you are indeed hot and will in fact have no issues in Ireland ( and sure don't we all be lovin those pretty American Gurls)

and with keeping on the Irish cheese heres some culture shock
Irish people don't pronounce their th's
so its not three thirty three and a third
(say the next part aloud)
its tree tirty tree and a tird and tirsty tursday
(look at you talking aloud to yourself youre getting the hang of it already!)

I spent a couple of Summers in Virginia, its the best experience of your life living in another country!
So Jump in with your two feet in the deep end and enjoy every minute of it!

and sure you never know you may end up bumping into some of us in the pub and not even know it!

PCPhoto wrote: »

Ireland for 2 months is a fair amount of time - if you have enough money you should have plenty of time to see a whole lot and visit different parts of Ireland.

theres plenty to see in Dublin - but theres loads outside Dublin too, if you keep posting theres usually someone (in after house and other forums) ..... then when it comes to your time here you may have made "friends" and might be lucky enough to experience a boards.ie (after hours) drinking session

I'm sure there will be people out there who will offer to drive you to different parts of Ireland (they'll probably been working in Dublin and going home at the weekends) ... Personally I'm from Cork - but don't go home very often.

the scenery and "traditional" life is easier to find in the west of Ireland, people are friendlier and landscapes are in general better - but you will still find plenty of friendly people in Dublin and still plenty of scenic places.

places to visit outside Dublin ...Galway, Donegal, Kerry, Cork, Waterford, Kilkenny.....even small towns like Sligo can be good for a night out.....so pretty much anywhere.

I suppose it all depends on what you are into.... regards music, achitechture, pubbing, clubbing.

you could spend a day or two wandering the streets of Dublin.... visiting some of the traditional statues and monuments, buildings etc ..... see Ireland's oldest pub, Irelands smallest pub, Ireland's highest pub ...Dublin's Highest pub.(Johnny foxes pub - supposedly used by the IRA for meetings in the past)

Ireland is reasonably expensive - especially if you plan to live here for 2 months.... do you have a place to stay or are you planning on staying in hostels etc ... are you planning to work ?

Where in America are you coming from ? - I was on holidays there with my girlfriend over the summer - we managed to visit (Toronto, Niagara (ok they are Canada), San Francisco, Hawaii (Big Island), Maui, Las Vegas and New York)

PCPhoto wrote: »

oh ... and reeses are hard to get over here so bring a decent supply - Hershey chocolate is not available at all.

Gunsfortoys wrote: »

Watch out for the jealous Irish women, they won't like the fact you look good with blonde hair.

NothingMan wrote: »

You can get Hersheys. I use to get a cookies & creme bar with my lunch in Spar. Besides, cadbury's will kick any American chocolate's ass.

You should check out couch surfing, it's a great way to travel and sleep for free. Friends of mine do it and they've played host to some cool people and all is they ask in return is that you're cool and maybe return the favor someday.

They also cooked them dinner which was nice.