Dublin

We arrived in Dublin around midday and we all kind of went our separate ways as some of us had been there before and some hadn't. Sally and I were pretty keen to hit up the shops so we wandered down the road from the hotel to check out the main shopping strip. 

To be honest the shopping was kind of disappointing (although I did get the book I have been after for the last 3 months). We both agreed that nothing was really jumping out at us. So we probably spent a couple of hours there before heading off in search of a chippy. Finding a chippy in Dublin is hard work! We walked around for agesssssssss.

We asked so many people and everyone would either send us to McDonald's or tell us there was nothing like that in Dublin (a chippy is a old fashioned chip shop for those who don't know). 

After walking around what seemed to be the whole of Dublin we finally found one just down the road from our hotel (typical). Perfect timing as well as the rain had just started to set in. 

After we scoffed down our cheesy chips we headed back for an hour or two to rest up before meeting up with the others in the bar downstairs to watch the football.

After a couple of beers later we headed off into town with our local guide (our SFS was Irish). We managed to go to three bars (two of which I realised I had been to last time I was there which was rather funny).

After a fight between our two SFS and racial slurs thrown at one of our cabin crew we decided to call it a night and get some chinese food for the road. 

Whilst we were eating one of the patrons in the restaurant (who was quite drunk I might add) threw a bread roll in our direction. The guy who it hit, Mario, had had enough so he went outside to have a cigarette. Alex our SFS who was also really drunk decided to fight back and threw a handful of rice and vegetables at this woman. I think the woman was in shock because she sat there for what seemed like maybe a minute before snapping. She stood up (and she was huge) and walked over to Alex to try and fight her. Patricia and I were trying to separate the two when Alex finally took my advice and walked towards the door. The lady ran after her and pulled her hair before one of our guys tackled the woman to the ground so she wouldn't do any more damage.

The guys ordered us to take Alex around the corner out of the woman's site before they bought her out and put her in a taxi. 

Looking back into the restaurant after we ran outside it looked as if a rice bomb had gone off. There were girls huddled in the corner of the restaurant and there was rice and vegetables all over the place!

We could not stop laughing the whole way home, and the next day everyone said they woke up to find rice in their bed or in their pocket, etc. 

The plane ride home was also riddled with jokes of the previous night as we were serving chicken and rice.

I would have to go on record here and say this was the most eventful layovers I have had to date. 

I think I will be remembering this one for a while.