This is going to be a very short post to detail some of my first impressions of Dublin.
My flight here was with Norwegian Air, one of those low-cost airlines that charge for checked baggage and food etc. It was fine, though the bi-lingual announcements became a little irritating, mostly because the Norwegian announcements had twice as many words as the English ones...
Dublin seems much more alive than Copenhagen: more people about, more cars, more music (four different buskers within 500m). The architecture is fairly typical terrace-housing style. Lots of brick but there are a lot more newer, modern buildings around. One truly weird thing though is this really tall spire in the centre of town. It looks like a flag pole and is ridiculously high. I will snap a photo tomorrow.
Other strange sights include newspaper sellers walking amongst cars, waiting at intersections for the lights to change, purveying their wares; and watching an afternoon TV show where the hot topic of conversation was the perils of cobblestones as footpaths.
The other main issue here in Ireland is the banking bailout. According to the news, the cost of bailing out the Irish banks may be north of 80 billion Euros... It appears that Ireland's economic woes continue.
Anyhow, that's all for today!
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