Been almost a week now since we touched down in Dublin. Have started looking for jobs and flats making small progress with both. We are waiting on word from a friend of Lesters about a flat in Blackrock, which is a southern suburb of Dublin situated conveniently on the train line. Today we met two recruitment people both said that we should be able to get a job but it is not as good as it was and we might have to be patient…hmm.

On Friday last week we went to the monthly drinks at the Australian embassy. Met lots of Aussies and a few Irish taking advantage of the VERY cheap drinks. Also been drinking in Temple Bar and a local.

Last weekend was a long weekend here so the 4 of us (Kieran, Lester, Sue and I) hired a car and headed to Wexford County. We saw a castle, an abbey, a lighthouse, a beach and lots of grassy fields with cows and sheep. On the Sunday night we saw a local covers band and then had a boogey. The dancefloor reminded us of a high school dance as they were playing slow music and all the couples were slow dancing and all the singles standing at the edges…bizarre! Eventually they played some OK music and we had a dance though.

On the way home to the B and B we met some locals who told us that the place we were staying was haunted! We thought they were just trying to scare the shit out of us (didn’t work, we had all had too much to drink to allow a few ghosts to scare us!) but as it turns out the people that ran the place had seen ghosts and they had even had it confirmed by a ghost specialist person.