Lovely places in Dublin and my presentation day.

Phoenix park.. Tu phoenix kat on top of the monument..

Second day at Dublin, we went to Phoenix park, we've been told that it was the largest park in europe so definitely we went round the park via car. In the park is the Dublin zoo but tak masuklah, not really interested to visit zoo. We did wander around, but unfortunately we didn' manage to see the dears at the park. Ussually there are dears wandering freely in this park. But as for today we are just not in luck. Maybe the dears have sense there will be malaysian coming so Hide!!

Beautiful pond, pitty the swan she actually swam from the other side of the pond approaching my hubby with her babies thinking that my hubby had brought some food for them but he didn't.. So cruel..

Than off we go to the botanical garden. It's about 15 minutes drive from the phoenix park.

The green house

Ala ala masuk hutan la nih
Compliment to the gardeners and the landscaper
Rose garden, the smell of the roses were so refreshing.

Like old times... ala ala dating gitu.

Tired and hungry.. apa lagi soru ler.. This is at the Islamic center, there is an arab restaurant there. Alast second day in Dublin I got to enjoy eating rice..

The beautiful mosque at the Islamic Center. We solah zohor there.

Today is THE DAY... All the adrenalin rush can be felt since early morning. I can't sleep from the moment I finished my Subuh prayers until its time to walk to UCD. I felt tachicardic, nausea, dispnea .. long story short all the physiological changes were due to the instabil emotion I'm feeling at the time. Any way we started walking early morning, though I'm scared with the tought of the presentation but as ussual my hubby still happy snapping pics here and there.

My hubby pretending to wait for a bus but the truth was we walked along the way

They told me that it will only be a 10 - 15 minutes walk but..... I felt like losing my breath walking to UCD from Radisson... Arghhh it had been years when I last walk this distance.

Anyway arrived alast. Alhamdulillah

My first oral presentation in an international conference

As a reward for me with the walking and being able to get through with the presentation, Dr Yusri and Ain brought us to GLENDELOUGH. Picturesque........ The route to get there is like Bukit Putus but arriving there it is all worthy! The beautiful surrounding is just too difficult for me to describe.

The lake and the hill view as background while promoting Ain's delicious muffin.

Make me remember of a series when I was a little girl ' A small house down the prairie'

Precious moment with the precious man in my life

It took him quite some time to climb up there....

Refreshing.

This is the starting point to hike up the hill but no thank you, enough walking for a day

Impress with the Foxglove flower, it is a digitalis!

Great moment together.

Dublin Visit (Part 1)

Finally I had time to update my blog but my writing skill is a little bit rusty now since I haven't been writing for quite sometime.

This time my story is about my new yet exiting experience that I got from my trip to Dublin. Due to unavoidable circumstances me and my hubby had to decide on taking Air Asia to London though at first we are trying to avoid direct flight because few of my friends told me that it will be very tiring. Our actual journey started on 3rd of July, from KL back to Sungai Petani to send the kids to my mom's house. She had initially agreed upon taking care of them when we are away. 6 hours journey.

From there we took Air Asia from Penang to KL then from KL directly to London. We started the journey at 6.oo am from Penang and we arrived at London approximately at 11.55 pm London time. Mak Aih .. imagine the hours we spent waiting for the flight and the inflight journey....

Tired face arriving at Stansted Airport, London.

But the journey doesn't end yet, we have to wait for another 5 hours at Stansted just to get our next flight to Dublin which is scheduled at 6.00 am. At that time I felt like a never ending story.. Sleeping .. waking up...sleep again .. waking up again but we are not in Dublin yet.. Arghh..

But my beloved hubby still have the heart to take photos at the airport...

Upon arriving at Dublin airport both of us were so blurr, this is actually our first trip to europe. Fortunately Dr Yusri a good friend of AP Dr Zainab and family fetched us at the airport. At first I'm rather confused how did he manage to recognize us as as soon as we approached the arrival hall. But maybe because not many Malays were there (Lagipun dedua muka asek tengok sani sini obvious sangat kot). Alhamdulillah arrived alast.

Dr Yusri (him and his wife had been very helpful and very nice throughout our stay ) and Azmani taking pic with the background of bungalows owned by pensioners.

I definitely sure that we were very tired when we arrived at Dublin but after a very delicious luxury breakfast with Dr Yusri and Ain, suddenly we had the energy to go for sightseeing at the city center. We had to take pic at the royal college of surgeon ... hehehe it had been once my dream to study there.

We went for a walk around the city center my hubby mmg snap sana sini jer kejernyer loads of pic we took at the city center. I just uploaded all in my facebook easier though.

Impressive the mosque were once a church, we can still know based on the design

A medical center that doesn't look like a medical center at all to me.

This transportation is called Luas.. luas nyer jalan yang dia pakai. It is as slow as our commuter but more comfy and much much cleaner.

This is the main entrance for St Stephen's Park (hopefuly I still got the name right). I'm right under the entrance.. can anyone see me?

This is the park at the middle of the city center very beautiful and they occupied this park for lunch and most of their free time. Irish just love park like this.

After wandering around the city center and the park we were starving so time for lunch.. My first Kebab in Ireland. First time taste it, I can say it was yummy and they were very generous in filling in the pita bread with the lamb.. We were full until the next day.
Arriving at the Radisson St Helen's Hotel Dublin, we were surprised by the mansion look it featured . Macam zaman dolu dolu punya building. Cayaklah

And there is also a park right in front of the hotel.

In the room we were again being surprised by the warm welcome. The room is not that big compared to any five stars hotel in malaysia but my hubby was so thrilled seeing his name on the TV at the room. That was our first day in Dublin exciting and memorable. Then due to our tiredness what we did after checking in at 5.00 pm was sleep ... and more sleep till the next day.