Off to Dublin!

19th September - Culture Night

Free and Easy day! For museums visiting.
Tonight in Dublin City there's a very interesting event going on. It's called the Culture Night.
Culture Night landed all over the country on Friday September 19th as hundreds of tourists and locals swarm to different museums.

Organised by Temple Bar Cultural Trust, Culture Night Dublin sees over 100 museums, galleries, theatres and more open their doors late into the night for FREE and for one night only every September across Dublin city.

This late night cultural feast offers something for everyone making this a fantastic opportunity to explore and discover Dublin’s cultural life by night!
We were considered lucky as we were in Dublin just when this event of the year happens.
Quite cool huh.

There's too many museums to cover, so we filtered out a few that we find that it's necessary to cover.

Took Dart to Pearse station again.

Just when we walked out of the station, near Trinity College there's a Robot exhibition which attracted us to. The exhibition was quite cool.

This robot can solve the rubik's cube just by registering the images of the unsolved puzzle to its system and count its time when solving it. Intelligent one.

After the robot exhibition, we went for a little shopping as we were still early for the Culture night.

We walked past this fast food restaurant called "Supermac" which is much like a Macdonald + KFC kind of thing.
They have fried chicken set meals and also burgers meal.
We ordered a family fried chicken feast so all of us can share.

The taste of it was not too bad.
But I think "Popeye's" fried chicken in Changi Airport taste better.

After some leisure time, we start to visit the museums at about 5pm.
1st stop we went to the National Museum, where we learnt about the Vikings, Kingship and scarifies and more.

We spent longer time in National Museum that we thought, so we skipped off the next destination and went on to City Hall.
City Hall hosts "The story of the Capital." It houses the City Treasures such as chains, swords and mace of Lord Mayor along with medieval manuscripts and costume.
Too bad we can't take much photos when in museums.

At Dawnson Street we saw some Street Performance. The band was awesome and quite interactive with the camera. Audiences were also dancing along with it. We gave them some token and took CDs from them.

Expensive Street.

Next stop was supposed to be St. Mary Pro-Cathedral but we saw some interesting mascot on the way.

We decided to stop by some shots of the Cultural Night Mascot and headed back to grab some food from Mac before we took the bus back to the hotel.

Our first time taking bus back to our hotel from town.
There's this kind lady who directed us which stop to alight. I'm quite surprised that we always have kind people showing us directions whenever we look lost or lost.
Can see that Irish people are really friendly and kind-hearted!

Once we reached hotel, we were dead beat.
Julian said : "I have never walked so much in my life until now!"

see. we walked alot.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008