So I guess I haven’t truely said my Dublin to Tallinn itinerary but basically it was 1am to Riga and then like 6 hour layover then off to Tallinn, Estonia. So I had a couple of pints before hitting the airport and was fortunate enough to get a ticket on the plane that I was intially suppose to so good stuff. I fell asleep at the Riga airport I found like the best seats and was able to be pretty comfortable. Got some terrible pizza after I woke up and was off to Tallinn.
I got into Tallinn got my bags safely and took a bus to supposively close to the hostel I was staying at. I got on the bus and no one paid or anything so I followed along and go to the destination. To make a long story short I got lost and walked around the city and outskirts of Tallinn for about 5 or 6 hours in the snow. It really wasn’t too bad as I really got a good feeling of the city around me. The snow was cold and the backpack definetely did not help but overall I am kind of happy this happened. Obviously I wouldn’t like it if it happened again but overall a ok expierence.
When I finally found the hostel no one was there but I was in a 8 person dorm with all the beds filled except mine. I went a got some really good food at this mideval resteraunt which was pork chops and potatoes with sauerkraut on the side. It was the best meal I have had in awhile. Well anyways I went back to the hostel and the crazy night began.
I was just ready to get to bed to wake up early to see the sights tomorrow. Right when I went down the two people whose bed was right next to mine ended up waking me up to drink some box wine. There was Neil who was 31 year old driver for tour company and Roma who was 30 year old tour guide. We basically got to talking and tried to figure out what the best plan to get to Berlin for me was and we decided the best thing was for them to give me a ride to Riga,Latvia and fly from there to Berlin. That was great for me because finding good deals for them is like a job and I was very appreciative that they would be willing to give me a ride free of charge.
What makes this a crazy night was basically we drank entirely to much wine. We got into rants from Neil and eventually he went to sleep leaving me and Roma. To make a long story short we made out alittle. The reason I am saying this was it kind of added(or took away) from the future trip and I am not holding anything back. But what was the craziest part which I think is hilarious was some girls came back from there bars and I tried to me friendly. Roma got super protective and started talking shit to this girl who was telling me about her schooling. It was probably the booze but still hella funny. I need to stop meeting crazy women seriously. I have a hot streak going now. But anyways the next day is Riga with these two people I met wish me luck.
Cliff notes: Flight to Tallinn
Got lost in Tallinn
Great food
Drunk Night with Roma
Going to Riga tomorrow
Sorry slacking on these but this was the final day. The guys got me to go to the jameson factory fairly around noon that day. I tend to be really quiet when I am tired so I was pretty much keeping to myself. We got there and booked the tour while I went and got a panini from the food place inside. We did the tour and I thought it was pretty terrible. There was nothing real in the entire place as they didn’t bottle there anymore but it was the main place for like two hundred years. They basically just tell you how whiskey is made and how much care it takes but I didn’t really care and just wanted my whiskey at the end. The germans said they would teach me how to drink whiskey, which is just without coke. It was good and I really like Jameson. I can’t really drink it fast because I have a bad stomach for booze than do not include < 20% alcohol. Some girl also spilled her drink all over another girls camera. I thought that was funny in a shadenfreude kind of way.
After that I had to go book my next plans. I knew I was going to Berlin with Jay but I needed to figure out where my next plans between the time we were in Dublin and when he arrived in Berlin. So I had to kill about 3 days by myself. After looking around, trying not to get bloodbathed on the price, I decided Tallinn in Estonia would be the best after many recommendations from the DC forums. I had my flight booked for 1am that night.
While all this was going on the guys met their female friend from high school and she took them pubbing because she was living in the area for a number of months. After finishing my bookings I decided to meet up with them at a Gaelic pub. After awhile having no idea which one they were at I finally found them. One sidenote, in the states I basically use no cash, my ATM card is basically used everywhere. This allows me to carry little cash on me and it causes me to spend alot less than I usually would. In Dublin its hard to find places that accept it. So weird and very inconvinent for me. But anyways after we walked around the city for awhile there friend decided to part for the night and we went back to the place a cooked some food.
Since I was leaving the hostel at about 11pm to get to my flight on time I wanted to get everyone to the pubs for my last night as quickly as possible. It seemed as though that was a huge hassle as everyone was pretty tired. I also flagged a couple more people to come with us which made it even more stressful because I told them we were going to leave at 9pm and no one seemed ready at that time. This is the beginning what would turn out to be a pretty shitty night. First part being we just wanted a bar that served guinness. Since I was in such a hurry I decided to go to Porterhouse which was a pub I went to on my first day. Alas they did not have guinness and I got a considerable amount of shit. The next poor part was when I was in the bar I wanted to make sure my flight was booked. It turned out my credit card which was about to expire was rejected. I had a few more days but its been more spotty than usual and I had to run back early and figure out wtf I was going to do. I was already booked in a hostel in Tallinn with no flight. I decided to just go to the airport and try my luck. Luckily I got there by a friendly driver and everything worked out just fine. I was off to Tallinn the next day
CLIFFNOTES:
Jameson
Booking troubles
Pubs
Tallinn
Just a couple of sidenotes from the night before I start day 2. I went to Temple Bar and another Bar that is in the Temple Bar district. Temple bar was the famous bar in Dublin and its pretty good. I didn’t like it the best but it was better than any experience I have had at home. They both had live bands which I thought was awesome. I was dancing a jig the entire time. I tried to get the ladies we were too but if I remember correctly they don’t like making an ass of themselves nearly as much as I do so I think me and guy from Australia were by ourselves.
So I woke up with a massive hangover. I felt like shit but obviously standard from a great night of partying. I forced myself to wake up before the other guys because I am in a different room and didnt really know how we would meet up because im trying to keep the phone use to a minimum. Everyone else was pretty hungover as well and when we met up I immediately took a nap in an open bed in their room. We decided to get some food and see the sights. We walked down the streets and eventually saw the spire. I’ve been trying to get pictures but I keep forgetting my camera but its basically a huge needle that goes in the air. Pretty sick. Google it if you wanna see it. We kept going and saw trinity college which sucked but were decide if we ever go back there we will tell everyone we were there for the Nepalese Shamanism seminar because thats what were all about. We got some food afterwards, got lost and decided to go watch the liverpool in the pub.
Liverpool is my favorite soccer team even though I don’t know to many and they were playing some team I have never heard of for the Eurocup. I thought it would be perfect to put a bet on. I decided I would put 100 euros and I tried to convince beastie to join me. But the nit only put 50 euros. So we put 150 euros on liverpool to win at 8/11. Free money imo. One of beasties friends took 10 euros of action from each of us and we were off to watch the game at the pub. They ended up being down 1-0 right off the bat and we were pretty scared but they pulled it off and won 3-1 after killing in the second half. Best part of this was there was opposing fans sitting right next to us who got pissed when we cheered. And the old man bar argument which turned into a street fight. Pretty funny stuff.
After this we went out with the american girls again and I apparentely made an ass of myself yet again. With stories about my first grade to spilling rum and cokes we were trying to give the girls. Good times though and we got an epic picture of beastie staring at one of the americans boobs. Pretty amazing stuff ill try to get my hands on it for you guys.
CLIFF NOTES: Basics from last night. Spire and Trinity college. Liverpool action. Beastie likes boobs.
I know some people are reading this if you want me to go over more specifics or get more general or talk about feelings or whatever let me know what you like. I know some people want to hear about things which I do not think of so let me know what you like. If you like this than say so too because I feel like its drabble.
Good times I am off to Tallinn right now in the airport for the next couple of days. One more blog from Dublin first. OOO suspense.
So Jaybeastie and his buddies were going to meet me at 3 or 4 pm so I had some time to myself before they arrived at the hostel. I decided to walk around Dublin randomly with a map in my back pocket and see where I lead myself. Anyways I saw some great sites. Saw one poker room and a bunch of the local pubs before I ended up at St. Patricks Cathedral which I thought was a perfect for the first destination of my trip. I went it with my hat on to quickly realize I was being rude. This was def not my intention so I quickly took it off and they also said that I shouldn’t be carrying my backpack which is really heavy so I was very happy to put it down in one of the back rooms.
Just a sidenote the people in Dublin are suuuuuupperr nice. The women at the cathedral was a nice old lady when I put my pack down she noticed the my jacket was in shambles from just taking off the backpack and nicely fixed it for me. I think stuff like this is just so supremely underrated. I mean I like to embrace the kindness of strangers because people are just so damn mean these days.
But the Cathedral was nice. Very standard from what I have experienced in the past from going to quite a few in. They had what seemed to be an over obsession with Jonathon Swift but besides that a great thing to start the trip with. After that I walked back to the hostel because for some reason I couldnt get it out of my head that I was meeting Jonas(Jay) at 11 or 12 not 3 or 4. After killing sometime I thought I would check my text messages and sure enough I was 3 hours early. So after that I was hungry and decided to go down the street to Porterhouse Pub. Real nice one in the Temple district with over 90 beers there. When I went it no one was there and again the waitress was super nice/super cute in borderline flirting type of way. Got a steak sandwich and just hung out and read. I absolutely loved spending time there. Very chill. They gave me shit for finishing 2 beers in like an hour and looking alittle drunk when I left but it was the headrush.
After that I went back to the hostel and finished the rest of Shutter Island. I recommend it alot and hope the movie plays out like the book did.
Jonas and his friends finally arrived and we did greetings and got to know each other. Super nice kids though they like to give me shit for not understanding german. Fuckers. I am writing this a couple of days later but essentially we got food and met a couple of American girls as well as my roommate a guy from Australia and their roommate who was a girl from Spain. We all went to the pubs and got pretty hammered. They were all nice and we end up spending more time with all of them later except for the guy from Australia and that is because he left.
But that was my first day I will try to post cliffnotes at the end of these because I tend to ramble and alot of this is for my own and my family back homes benefit rather than for entertainment sake.
CLIFF NOTES: Dublin day 1. Woke up went to St. Patricks Cathedral. Spent time reading and drinking in pub. Met Jonas and friends. Nice guys obv. German. Found others and went out drinking
So I finally got to Dublin. I left yesterday from my apartment at 2pm west coast time and I finally arrived at my Hostel 23 hours later. Actually wasn’t as bad as you would expect. I will get to that later though. DISCLAIMER this is going to be super boring as its just going to be me ranting about my travel expierences.
Left my apartment with my roommate Jamie. I found out assuming I do not cut this trip crazy short that I won’t be able to play the bay 101 WPT tourney. Depending on how I am running I might not anyways but I would like to keep the option open because that tourneys going to be sick good. But I hope jamie sats into it so I can buy a piece because I would love to have a sweat (as always). But I arrived at the airport and only funny thing that happened was I got stuck behind these three people at ticketing, then in customs, then I got sat next to them on the plane as well. I flew Virgin Atlantic which I will recommend to everyone. I heard they have wifi but since all my luggage besides headphone and book were in my backpack I couldn’t try it out. But what was great about the flight was I got a seat next to me opened and that one next to it was open as well but the lady 3 seats over pretty much took it. 2 seats is better than none.
The only thing on the first plane that happen was I watched the movie paranormal activity I think its called. Pretty good to say the least. Kind of a blair witch kind of feel. But the end was pretty freaking which is saying alot for me who hasn’t really been truly scared from a movie since poltergeist when I was 8. But def check it out.
I flew into London Heathrow with no problems but my layover was 8 hours which sucked alot.
I wasted alot of time trying to find where the hell my next plane was because all I knew was the flight number and had no idea of even the airline. Turned out to be BMI i believe.
While I was at the airport just trying to waste time I sat down to get some food. Now I have been trying to be reading as much as possible on the ettiquette of just natural stuff around Europe but it seems to be different everywhere you go. One bar I paid at the bar and had to remember my table number. Got a burger and chips(I am getting the lingo) pretty good. Before I came here my dad mentioned that his parents spent a decent amount of time in London and they absolutely loved the warm beer. Its hard to tell which one are and which ones aren’t but I got some and it was decent. I am not to picky with my beer but it was heavy for my first meal of the morning. Had a stella to wash it down later which is always a safe choice. I plan on getting wasted as much as possible this trip. Hopefully chatting it up with the locals in the pubs but I thought it best to stay with two since I had another flight.
The airport was better as they have like a waiting area which shops and food and lots of seats and when its getting closer to your flight(<1 hour) you can start to make the trek to your flight. The flight was nothing special. I picked up Shutter Island the book at London and am ripping through that pretty well and its very good.
But here I am now at Four Courts Hostel in Dublin. Just got here a bunch of people mincing around my age with a couple of 45 year old males in the bunch too. I don’t judge though got to save that money. Jaybeastie is coming tomorrow though and I am super pumped. IF you don’t know him hes a super cool kid from Germany and were gonna paint the town red with a couple of his friends.
I know this was boring but I wanted to get a blog a day kind of thing going so hang with me I sure much more will come. Until next time Cheers.
I was playing 100/200 at Bay 101. Everyone was down except for me. They were telling me to quit the game forever. They called me lucky. They called me bad. I think I played well. I left. I won 7300. I ate a couple of hot dogs and an order of french fries. I went to sleep. I woke up. I did it all over again.
Life is good.
Also I am looking to possibly get a used car. I am not baller enough to pay 40k cash for a new one yet. But what I am looking for is a nice Luxury automobile that has stupid shit to impress my friends. Any one have any ideas? So far Cadillac CTS, Audi A4, Infiniti G35, Acura TL are all options. Anyone have any opinions of these or cars like these? I need as much help as I can get
1. Back home from the commerce.
2. Had one losing day at commerce for some reason playing 10/20 nl
3. Playing Bay 101 100/200 game
4. Up over 25k for the month
5. Niiiiiceeeee
