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.