Sorry for the late post! The internet at our hostel in Bath has been shocking.
So as I said in the previous post, in Dublin we visited the Old Jameson Distillery!
I had really been looking forward to it, as Jameson's is my Dads favourite whiskey and I have come to really like it too. We went on a tour of the distillery and learnt about the history of Jameson and how the whiskey is made. It was really interesting! I actually learnt quite a lot from the tour. The distillery we visited in Dublin is no longer in operation, so we didn't actually get to see any whiskey being made. They did however have scaled down (still huge) versions of all the things they use to make the whiskey so we could still see how it is made. After the tour we got to do a whiskey tasting which, lets be honest, was what we had been looking forward to. We were given a taste of Jameson, Jack Daniels and Johnny Walker and compared them to each other. It's really amazing the difference in the taste when you are comparing them. As well as the tasting we also got a free drink at the bar which was pretty cool. We had Jameson with ginger and lime, which was delicious! (You should try it dad. Jameson, ginger beer and lime juice with ice)
After the tour we took our last walk around Dublin and went back to the hostel to rest. We left the hostel with plenty of time to get to the ferry. Google told us that we had to catch the 151 bus, and then it would be a nice, easy 12 minute walk from there. We should have realised something was wrong when the bus driver seemed really surprised when we said we were headed for the port. We got off at the stop we were told, and proceeded to follow the directions Google had attempted to give us. We made it to the entrance of the port, with the help of a lovely lady who happened to be walking by us and was willing to give directions. This was about 20 minutes away from the bus stop. Yay! We had made it to the port. We stopped in at the service station to ask for directions to our terminal. The man there told us it was about a 30 minute walk away, maybe longer. Our ferry left in 20 minutes. We were almost about to try our luck and just leg it to the terminal, when (thank god) a taxi drove around the corner. The taxi driver laughed at us when we told him we were going to walk there, and said we were not the first tourists to make that mistake. Luckily we made it to the ferry just in time. An hour after we had originally planned to be there. The ferry was extremely nice. More of a cruise ship really! It's huge! With a bar, lounges, cafés, a cinema, a casino, games room and a shop. It was a 3 hour journey to Holyhead, Wales. I wish it had been longer so we had more time on the boat! Once in Holyhead we had to wait for the first train out. We arrived at 12:30am and our train was at 4:25am, so we had a long wait ahead of us. There weren't many chairs at the station, so on the floor it was. It was absolutely freezing in the station, and it was tiled so we had to sleep on tiled floor which made it even colder. It was a really unpleasant few hours. Once our train arrived it was a 5 hour trip to Newport, Wales. At least the train was warm. I think we both managed to sleep a few hours each. Once in Newport we only had one train left, thank goodness. The train to bath was only about 40 minutes long. However it was a painful 40 minutes, as a bunch of drunken Welsh boys (it was 9:40am I might add) got on and were extremely loud. We finally made it to the hostel.
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