The Last Hurrah for Crinkly - Euro tour (9/7-?) Day 3 Kilmainham Gaol tour and beers at Porterhouse (9/9)

Grab breakfast at the hostel then go to the doctors office to try and get an appointment and they have nothing in the next couple weeks which sucks so I go back to the hostel to lay down for a bit and relax until its time to walk back across town for my tour appointment at the Kilmainham Goal. Pretty cool building with a sordid past. 

This is the photo I think everyone gets to know from the prison.

Crinkly getting a taste of the jail life

Crinkly enjoying his new found freedom

Such a beautiful building, shame its horrid past

Love spiral staircases!!!!

Its getting dark in here

Church near the hostel

This is what I think of when I think of the housing in this part of the world

Found the good ole GPO

Wax museum in a bad ass building

At porterhouse so Crinkly could meet some cousins and I could enjoy some footy on tv

Dark beers for the win

Just me enjoying a good beer making Crinkly jealous. 

Also I learned that France helped the Irish rebel against the British as well; makes me want to look into French history and see just how many of the previous British colonies they helped free. Viva la Libertie! (Dont speak french so spelling most definitely is wrong hahah) This jail was also the motivation/inspiration of one of my favorite Irish songs, Grace (if you havent heard the song and you like beautiful songs, do yourself a favor and look it up just make sure you have some kleenex nearby - just thinking of the song as I type this gives me goosebumps). Walk back to the hostel to do some work while its raining a bit. After it dies down, I go for a walk around the north side of the river which has a lot more of what I think about when I think about UK architecture. Stop at Boodum to grab a bite of Irish Mexican food (IshMex as I will call it for right now) which isnt that bad; for how far they are from Mexico, I expected it to be so much worse. Then I was thirsty so I walked down to Porterhouse near the Trinity to try some stouts and porters before heading back to the place to shower and chill a little bit while planning the next fun filled day.