DUBLIN - IRELAND

just 40minutes after leavin liverpool i was in dublin. the dirty old town itself.

made my way to trinity college to meet up with guido, then headed bak to his gaff. not a bad little gaf on the camden street, one of the main streets in dublin. we sat on their roof top and had few beer with marky, phillie, kinta and the one and only weeman. sun was out and it was a good start to dublin.

next day guido took me around dublin, through temple bar, along the liffey, past christ church and the post office with bullet holes. then ended the day by hitting some pub on camden street.

met up with kimbo (a girl i met in IOS in 06) on the wednesday and we hit up the guiness factory. it was pretty interesting with the brewing process and history with loads of reading and no tour guides. up on the top level is the gravity bar, which has 340degree not 360 views of dublin. it was a fab day with heaps of walkin, its the best way to see any city, just keep walkin. that night kimbo, laura came out with me guido and weeman.

thursday was a relaxing day, with more drinks in the afternoon. we headed to kintas pub then markys bar which is cocktail bar. he made the menu so the names of cocktails are his mates. e.g. the weeman, a guido highball. we ventured on the south side of the liffey and temple bar and ended at phillies pub.

friday we jumped on the luas to tio's house. it was the kiwi's bday so he chucked on a bbq. frank gallagher was with us, any one who has seen the show shameless, this guy is frank gallagher.

saturday was awesome! sun was out so we had a rooftop bbq. then we all headed to mallahide castle to see radiohead. it was an awesome day, walkin up to mallahide castle with sun shining was the best settin to for music i have seen. it was a magic day/night.

sunday we all went to johnnie's which is the highest pub in ireland. it had trad (traditional irish music) and good character.

dublin is weird, there is nothing much to see. there is no big sights, if you ask the locals wat should i see? they direct to different pubs. its more of a social country and wen i go back in august to see muse i will head to different countys. overall dublin and irish people in general are so welcoming and social which suits me pretty well.

LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND - UK

i arrived to the merseyside on friday arvo with roger "chimpmits" mccozzy waitin for me in a porsche 4x4/batted old rover. headed bak to his new gaff via anfield to drop my bags off, then straight to the battle cruiser for wife beater or 3. ended up jumpin on the train to town to catch up with stevieG for his birthday. unfortunately SG had to head off to Trinidad for a kick, so we were left in jamie carraghers bar knockin bak a few in honour of our stevie. try the pepe pasta!

with lots of larfs along the way we ended up in concert square. it was a boss night, meeting loads of quality scouses until chimpmits decided enough was enough at a ripe time of 10.30 as we headed off home. the nullarbor's and umbrella ella ella ella's were a big hit.

saturday was a glorious day and we headed down to south road for a bevie n bet. i lost a few quid, whilst roger poured out half a beer in the worlds smallest beer garden. with the sun in the sky we went to jonesy's for bbq. rogers cousins karl n jack came west from hallifax to join in. baz n steph, mccozzy's good scouse mates, made an appearence aswell. it was a good day, with good people and we made tracks in the arvo to the bug. it was at this time roger informed me he would not be heading out. obviously this left me feeling shocked and dismayed. me and karl soldiered on into varsity (formally known as the barracuda bar) and then into concert square for a purely belter night out. ended up home in the early hours with a plant as a gift for sleeping beauty.

sunday was not as glorious, with constant rain and no sun to be seen. wat a difference a day makes. we ventured to albert docks for look about and jumped on the duck bus (its a tour bus that takes ya round the city and then drives into the water and turns into a boat). we saw all the sights of liverpool and now hav been officially baptised by the water of the mersey.

that evenin we made our way down matthew street to the cavern club. its an amazing venue that you hav to see to understand it. an underground music club where the beatles made famous as it was where they started out. bands like the rolling stones, sex pitsols, the who etc also played there in their heyday. not suprisingly a beatles cover band were playin. after takin in the beauty of the cavern club we met up with baz n steph for a lager n food. another good day and night that ended with singalongs at rogers gaff and yes we did sing you'll never walk along.

today we are heading off to liverpool one, liverpool's massive open air shopping centre to see lfc's biggest merch shop that has just opened. doin a wiliams tunnel tour later on, its where they kept all their slave years ago, which turned into a black market area of liverpool where tunnels go in every direction for miles under liverpool. off to manchester tonight to see foo fighters. they are playin at city of manchester stadium, man citys home ground. should be another sound day/night.

well thats liverpool covered for now. off to dublin tomorro for a week.

stay classy australia!