#61: dublin!

I’m currently typing this entry from an airport lounge on my way back to London from….Dublin, Ireland!

After arriving on Friday night with DT around 9pm, we ate, headed to bed and actually got off to quite the late start on Saturday with us getting up around 1pm.

We’ve both never been here before but DT is clearly the more directional of the two of us and I pretty much spent the weekend following him around assuming he knew where to go on the map.

The past 2.5 days have been spent exploring this amazing city doing such touristy things as going to the Guinness Brewery, the Spire of Dublin, St. Stephen’s Green Park, dining out, etc.

We even checked out the Irish version of Abercrombie & Fitch called Farrell & Brown. It was eerily similar and even had an Irish Wolfhound as the logo in place of A&F's signature moose.

On Saturday, the 14th (i.e. Valentine’s Day) we went to this really nice restaurant called Venu and we were clearly the only gay couple in the joint. Our waiter had this “Awww how cute” smile on his face the entire night (at least it seemed so to me) and both the service and food were excellent.

After dinner, we (of course) checked out Dublin’s fun and surprisingly active albeit small gay nightlife scene.

Perhaps the most amusing parts of the trip were:

1)    Being asked if we needed separate beds when we attempted to check in at our extremely nice hotel. We smiled at each other and politely said the King would be just fine. ☺
2)    Attempting to enter a gay bar/club called the George and being stopped by security who asked us if we were aware that it was a gay establishment. The rainbow flag clearly DID NOT give ANYTHING away. LOL.

All in all, a great city, amazing (and intelligent and sweet and sexy) company and a wonderful trip resulted in the best Valentine’s Day weekend that I can ever remember.

Plus, I can finally say that I’ve been somewhere else in Europe besides the UK!