Dublin again

Dublin was our last stop in Ireland. We spent 3 nights in the same hostel as our first stay in Dublin. We spent our first day getting things like washing and shopping done. Then on our second day we did some actual sight seeing, we went to the Christ Church Cathedral which still had a fair bit of snow outside of it.

Ewen out the front of the cathedral

We had a look inside the church which was huge and had some interesting parts but the best part by far was down in the crypt where they had a dead cat and mouse on display. they had been found dead in one of the organ pipes and someone had decided to put them on display. very strange people the Irish.

 After finishing in the church we went across the street where they had a Viking museum attached to the other side of the cathedral (the church has a bridge over a road that connects its two buildings. The Viking museum was pretty interesting and had a few costumes you could try on which was fun, the helmets were so heavy on your head! I'm surprised all vikings didn't have slightly flat heads from wearing the helmets all the time. The museum also had an archeology section and a little bit of history about medieval Dublin.After the museum we walked around the city for a few hours picking up some presents and souviners before going back to the hostel to cook an early bird dinner (we tried to only eat 2 meals a day while in Dublin that meant breakfast and an early dinner to save money) and watch movies.

Me with a crazy busker

 Our last day in Ireland we slept in and then had a nice lazy day wandering around the city, Ewen got a haircut so now I've lost my scruffy Ewen. He asked them to just tidy up the back and they cut pretty much all his hair he's been working so hard to grow for the past 8 months. We found a frozen lake (half frozen) and watched some ducks struggling to walk along the top of the ice. That was pretty much all we did that day, apart from going in and out of every single tourist shop looking for this picture of a lobster with a pint of Guinness and the writing says 'Lobsters love Guinness too' it is the best Guinness thing by far but we cant find it anywhere.
We celebrated our last night in Dublin with pizzas and 'The Social Network' movie which turned out to be pretty interesting. The next morning we got the bus to the airport headed for London.

The half frozen lake