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Ireland Trip
Jan. 10th, 2024 01:08 pmOver the New Year me and my family (and 4 of my Sylvanian Families) visited Ireland. It's already been 9 days since we left... Time flies!
The trip was most exciting for my dad, who (ironically) calls himself a 'celtophile'... He's really into Ireland, and Irish music and books and stuff. I'm into the Pogues and the Dubliners and whatever, so it was pretty exciting for me too. We went to a ton of pubs and I even had a sip of Guinness... It wasn't that good. But maybe I just don't drink alcohol. The first place we went to was an art gallery, or museum, or whatever. It was very interesting and I found out a lot about Irish art. I was particularly captivated by Jack B. Yeats' art. Very loose and expressive. Go have a look, it's real cool.
I hardly remember the order of the things we went to. We went to what we thought was an exhibition about the Pogues, but it turned out to just be a museum about Irish history with one, like, small room about the Pogues with very basic information. The museum was still interesting, though, and it had a cool pretend-passport thingy that you could stamp at the end of every room. After that, we went to a little restaurant nearby, me and my mom split some fish and chips and it wasn't all that good. A bit burnt.
Museums, museums, Guinness museum that was really boring... But I don't want to make it seem like I thought it was lame! It was really really interesting and really fun. There was only one downside: how we spent the New Year...
On New Years' Eve, we spent basically the whole night looking for a pub to go to. But, of course, it's the capital of the country, everything's full. More searching, and more searching, and we finally ended up with something! A bland supermarket ham and cheese sandwich Dr Pepper. And we weren't even anywhere interesting. We were just at the hotel room. I hadn't even realised it was the New Year... I was just scrolling through Instagram reels when my mom and dad told me that it was 2024.
But aside from that it really was interesting. I got an Oscar Wilde pen.
If you wanna see pictures from that trip, just look through my Instagram accountm specifically the "sylvanian__travels" one.
The trip was most exciting for my dad, who (ironically) calls himself a 'celtophile'... He's really into Ireland, and Irish music and books and stuff. I'm into the Pogues and the Dubliners and whatever, so it was pretty exciting for me too. We went to a ton of pubs and I even had a sip of Guinness... It wasn't that good. But maybe I just don't drink alcohol. The first place we went to was an art gallery, or museum, or whatever. It was very interesting and I found out a lot about Irish art. I was particularly captivated by Jack B. Yeats' art. Very loose and expressive. Go have a look, it's real cool.
I hardly remember the order of the things we went to. We went to what we thought was an exhibition about the Pogues, but it turned out to just be a museum about Irish history with one, like, small room about the Pogues with very basic information. The museum was still interesting, though, and it had a cool pretend-passport thingy that you could stamp at the end of every room. After that, we went to a little restaurant nearby, me and my mom split some fish and chips and it wasn't all that good. A bit burnt.
Museums, museums, Guinness museum that was really boring... But I don't want to make it seem like I thought it was lame! It was really really interesting and really fun. There was only one downside: how we spent the New Year...
On New Years' Eve, we spent basically the whole night looking for a pub to go to. But, of course, it's the capital of the country, everything's full. More searching, and more searching, and we finally ended up with something! A bland supermarket ham and cheese sandwich Dr Pepper. And we weren't even anywhere interesting. We were just at the hotel room. I hadn't even realised it was the New Year... I was just scrolling through Instagram reels when my mom and dad told me that it was 2024.
But aside from that it really was interesting. I got an Oscar Wilde pen.
If you wanna see pictures from that trip, just look through my Instagram accountm specifically the "sylvanian__travels" one.
