 Hi everybody and welcome to this week's video. I'm going to be talking about my trip to Dublin last week where I spent about four to five days in the city. Day one, we arrived into Dublin to the city center. It was pouring rain, but we weren't going to let that stop us from having a nice day. So we first went to the famous, I'm going to mess this up, all the Irish people are going to come for me, hop, hop penny, hop penny, hop penny. I don't know. We took some hilarious pictures. It was ridiculously windy that day. This is my new LinkedIn profile pic. I think that it just, um, I think I look very like naturally windblown and it's great. So after we saw the bridge, the rain really started to come down. So we decided to check out the National Gallery of Ireland. This was absolutely one of the most beautiful art museums I have been in. They had some modern art and others dating all the way back to the 1600s. They had things from like Impressionist art to Picasso. And we definitely saw some rooms with just Irish artists too. Our second day started at Alma for Breakfast in Portobello. We both ordered their Dulce de Leche pancakes and they were, they were so good. I could cry. I could cry right now thinking about how I will probably never eat them again unless they go back to Dublin. But that probably, I don't know when that's going to be. I'll cry. Um, and I would highly recommend staying in this area. There were so many good restaurants and we always felt safe as two female travelers. I am also going to list some of the best places we ate down below. So make sure to check that out if you are planning a trip. We then walked to the Dart Station near Trinity College and took the train to Houth. This was a really fun day. Houth was so beautiful and is well known for the cliff walk that takes you along the coast. We also stopped for dinner to get some fish and chips because it's classic. So we started day three by popping into the last bookshop in Portobello. This vintage bookstore was so charming in a funny way because let me tell you I have never seen a more disorganized bookshop. My friend Teresa, who I was traveling with, she swore that she saw just a bag, like a shopping bag just like tossed on the floor full of books. Like the guy definitely like got a donation of books and was just like, you know what? I give up and just like put it on the floor. We absolutely loved it. It was just kind of funny and charming and I actually ended up getting a book while I was there. The shopping in Dublin was awesome and I spent way too much money so stayed to the end for a haul. Then we hopped over to the George Street arcade Drury Street and finally the Temple Bar area for a day of shopping and gelato. This place was the best. I think it was called 320 Gelato and they melted like marshmallow. They like took a torch to the marshmallow on top. It was the best thing I'd ever eaten besides the pancakes. We did a lot of eating. It was it was great. This was one of the busiest days for us because that afternoon we had book tickets to the Book of Kells on Trinity's campus. This was a really cool thing to see and I'm glad we did it. But fair warning, it's a very small exhibit. Very cool. You know, you kind of like look at the book. It was cool. That's that's all I'm gonna say about that. Then that night we were out just looking for something to do or see. The Temple Bar area is very lively. A lot of pubs were playing live music and we actually ended up going to a comedy show last minute so there is definitely plenty to do in that area. On day four the weather was pretty rough again so we spur the moment decided to go to the Guinness Storehouse. This is probably one of the biggest tourist attractions in Dublin but if I'm being honest I'm not really a beer person so we weren't really we weren't really planning on doing this to begin with but because the weather was so bad we were like let's check it out. I'm so sorry for all the Irish people that I have offended. However, I will say that this ended up being one of my favorite things that we did the whole trip and I really mean that genuinely. The exhibit itself was really cool and interactive and it's not a very dense museum but it's a super cool building. Lots of different things to see. Like there was like a waterfall thing, lots of lights. They tell you how it's done and we actually got a tasting of Guinness with a guide and they give it to us in these little tiny pints. I love the little tiny pints and I want them to be protected forever because they are so cute and I think that that is all I have to say on that. We're going to do a toast to our good amount of sugar. I'm going to count the tree and we're all going to say the Irish word for a cheer is which of course is slantcha. So and then at the top of the building there is a 360 degree glass view of Dublin and you get to enjoy a pint if you are of age. This was just so cool sitting up there. You can really see the city. You can walk around the whole entire bar and there you can literally see all of Dublin. This was the best part and the next day we did fly back to Edinburgh. Overall we just had a really really nice time. So now it is time to just show you what I got because that's fun, right? I don't know. Do you care? Probably not. So in the last bookshop I actually ended up getting a book from the 1800s. I got this for like four pounds I think. It is in addition of a Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and I just found it like on the floor in a pile. I'm like look at this. That's like a real old book. Like I'm dead. I don't know. It's so cool. I just I think some I think maybe somebody else would be like why did you buy that? I don't know. I think it's I think it's like it's kind of fun and I love Christmas and I love ghost stories and I love this play and I've never actually read the book of it before. So now I got to do that and it's old. Okay next thing I got was from the Guinness Storehouse. Should I make this online? Okay what they do is they give you a pint at the top okay and then they send you downstairs to the gift shop. Um everybody got a Christmas present but yeah so I got myself this shirt and I think it's really cute. I don't know. I probably will never drink Guinness again because maybe that makes me a poser but like I've been there. You know what I mean? It's like I'm like not a poser because it's like it will remind me of that day and we had a lot of fun that day. I mean it was really good to rep a place afterwards and we had we just we had so much fun. This t-shirt will just forever remind me of that day. Next thing I got this is I don't know people think the system. So there was a store on Drury Street called the Irish Design Exchange. I always admire my family's like socks because something about like the socks that they used to make they just don't make socks like that anymore and I found these socks and I was like that those look like like socks from the olden days not the olden days but like the 80s you know what I mean? Like where did all those socks go? So I found this pair of wool socks. They're the best things that I've ever had in my whole entire life. To wash them I think you have to put them either give to hand wash them and I haven't done that yet but I've only been wearing them like in my dorm room and they're yeah they're fine. Like when my feet are fresh I should like pop them here. I don't know should I be telling you all this? But I just think that these socks are amazing. They're so warm and I'll have them like for the rest of my life hopefully and hopefully like when I have grandkids they'll be like damn those are some sick socks and I'll be like guess where I got them? Ireland. Next thing I got was actually this sweater and one of the biggest things that when I came to Edinburgh that I really wanted was like a good cable and sweater that I was gonna like you know spend a little dough on spend a little money because I really haven't bought that many like souvenirs since I've been here but so I got this at the Aaron's Sweater Store A-R-A-N and this is like a big thing in Ireland to get if you're a tourist. It's very warm and I liked it because it was blue. I like blue things and yeah I have not taken it off. It's so comfortable. This is just I'm gonna live in this from now on. The next thing I got was actually from a vintage store called Nine Crows. This store was awesome. This is probably one of my favorite vintage stores I've ever been in. Definitely a little more on the pricier side of vintage but most items I found were very like well worn so I was looking on their website and it sounds like a lot of what they had in stock was things that were previously owned but a lot of like back stock from clothing companies. I got this sweater and it's in really good condition for a vintage sweater like there's no rips there's no tears and it is just so comfortable and I'm I'm glad yeah I like it. I don't know what I'm glad I found it. Yep I think that's what I was trying to say. I have no idea. Another like wool sweater but I didn't pay like like I did get this you know nice one for a little more money but this one was still in very good condition and it will last me um a very long time but the price of like a vintage sweater and like I get the perk of like saying like oh look okay it's vintage you know what I mean like that's that's the takeaway. And then also at Nine Crows I found the perfect leather jacket I'm obsessed with it. It is so soft there's absolutely nothing wrong with it. I found looking for leather jackets in Edinburgh like a lot of the times in a vintage store they'll have like rips or tears or like marks on them and this one is just pretty like flawless I would say and it had pockets and it fit me decently so what that is really what happened. All right well if you made it all the way to the end thank you so much for watching and subscribe because I post new videos every Friday and give it a like if you liked it and comment down below if you've ever been to Ireland and things that you would like to do. Also if you're going make sure to check out the food things that I've suggested down below because I promise you they're all gonna be good and you're gonna be like wow I'm so glad that I looked those up so