Janet on the Tram in Dublin Ireland
George in Dublin Ireland
Yesterday we arrived in Dublin after missing a night of sleep. While we did catch a few zzzz’s on the plane, it was not very restful. We arrived at 10am Dublin time; five hours ahead of our time at home. We found a taxi and got to our hotel where we ended up taking a long nap. We had trouble getting to sleep after that and I finally went down around 1:30am and got up at around 10:30am.
Today we took a train and a tram to Dublin City Centre. My goal was to get my Vodafone SIM card to work on my cell phone and find a printer to print up our brochures. I can now receive calls but my data plan doesn’t work yet. It seems like it always takes hours for things that should “just work.”
Dublin has some great spots including places like Grafton St. It is a street with lots of people and no vehicles. There are also lots of shops and street entertainment.
Here is a video link of some street performers playing music. There is another street performer who did a little jig and was very worthy of capturing on video. You will see her at the end. For some reason, I cannot get this to be an embedded video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC1Lh-nknP0
statue-street-performers
There were also a selection of statue-street-performers who made it very difficult to tell if they were real or fake. They were dress in all gray and also had gray leather face and arm masks on. If you looked very close, all you could see is the odd eye movement. After throwing a Euro in their basket, which caused them to make a “thank you” hand gesture, we figured it out.
Janet in Dublin
Another interesting thing that happened was this homeless lady who was pushing a baby stroller with two babies in it, on a much crowed street. As I was passing by, she picked me out the crowd asking me for me for help while ignoring the others around us. I.e. I seemed to be the only one she approached for help. It was like there was a sign on me “Willing to help homeless people,” at least that is was Janet perceived. I did reach in and give her a few Euros.
We finally did find a print shop and get our brochures in the queue to be printed tomorrow.
Health Matters Dublin Ireland
We went to “Health Matters”, a health food store which was our first retail store in Europe that carried our products. They still sell our products consistently and the customers seem to love it and come back for more. It was great to see our product on the shelf.
So tomorrow will be a chill day to enjoy.