Getting straight into business, we booked a tour of the Guiness Storehouse - the home of the national and world reknowed beer. The tour basically took us through the history and process of making Guiness. The final part of the tour included a complementary pint on the 7th floor of the storehouse providing (apparently) the best view of Dublin in the city.
Now for the all important question: Does it taste as woeful at the source as it does back home? Basically, no. It's still pretty average in my eyes though.
The next day we took a free walking tour around the streets of Dublin and explained the history of the city as well as pointing out some of the key, and lesser known sites. 'Free tour' you ask? Well it's not really free. You're expected to tip the guide whatever you feel is necessary. Apparently it's so people of all budgets can enjoy the tour. I think it's more likely a tax dodge of some description. Anyway, although the 3 hour tour took it's toll, it provided all with a thorough background of a city the addmittedly we didn't really know that much about, as well as telling us some of the obscure tales that are somewhat synonymous with the Irish. One of many examples - a plaque placed on a bridge as a tribute to a man that never existed. Turns out the plaque was there for 6 or so years before the council eventually questioned it.
On our final day, we (minus Sam) ventured out to Clontarf to watch an ODI between Australia and Ireland. Not reknowned for their cricketing greatness, even the Irish predicted an Australian whitewash. Given we hate almost all of the current Australian cricket team, we were torn as to who we should actually support. The ground was extremely small (smaller than many local grounds back in Australia) and boundaries were expected. The Australians batted woefully at a rate of only 4.5 runs/over. We thought the Irish were going to do it after an opening partnership of 80+ in quickfire time. Eventually the Australian bowling attack bailed out what was a terrible batting performance and cleaned the Irish tail up. Despite this, there would be no excuses as there was an inpeding 5 game series against the poms which now wasn't looking promising. With no Peter Siddle in the Australian side, we had to blame someone else for the terrible display. This person would be Nathan Hauritz down on the boundary that was already getting a pasting from the local fans. How did he get a shot in the Australian team in the first place?
Update: Australia goes down to the poms 3-2. No suprise really.
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