Here we are, peeps, I´ll know start telling you about the first three days of my lovely lovely stay in my Darlin´ Dubs.
♣ Thursday ♣ Me and Ammi left early, and then I mean early, on Thursday morning by train from Vaasa to Helsinki. I was so knackered you wouldn´t believe. I´m no morning person, as you well know. And I hadn´t slept many hours beforehand since I came to Vaasa around midnight and then I still had things to pack.
When we came to Helsinki, we immediately went to find the bus that would take us to the airport. It was a 40 minutes ride and at some points I seriously thought, 'Are we really on the right way?' because it looked like we´d be in the middle of nowhere.
Anyways, let´s not get side-tracked here ;-)
When we arrived at the airport´s international terminal, we stepped off the bus and immediatly we saw Angie *yay* So therefor our travel company was complete! ;-)
Our plane left Finnish ground at 1.30pm and it took around 2½-3hours until we landed on Irish ground *woop woop* Ireland welcomedus with grey skies and occational rain. We bobbed and recieved those grey skies and the occasional rain!
We walked around on the airport a bit before, we bought a bus rumbler ticket and then went to find the bus that would take us to our B&B. It was an interesting ride, let me tell you! The bus driver was more than rough on the brakes *ouch*
We eventually found our B&B, which turned out to be the cosiest B&B ever. If you ever visit Dublin, please stay at the Almanii B&B! Mary, the hostess, was the kindest ever and she was so helpful! She also had the most adorable dog I´ve ever seen, Jolly, she was a charmer and joined us every morning for breakfast.
I had Irish breakfast every morning, it was delicious!
Here´s a photo of the room where I and Angie stayed. It was not the biggest room but so much more cosier! :)
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| Photo: almanii.com |
We then made a visit to the city centre and we strolled up and down the main street, O´Connell Street. We tried a true Irish meal, fish & chips.
♣ Friday ♣ What an exciting day this would become to be! We started the morning of course with a full Irish breakfast: bacon, sunny-side-up eggs, black & white pudding, grilled tomato, sausage... It was indeed very delicious and I had it every morning + one morning I also had fresh fruit. Yummy! Another thing I liked a lot was the coffee. It was delicious!
We had made plans to meet Lene and the gang at 1.30pm at the "Spire" in the city centre. Besides Lene, there were also Laila, Mandi and one more. Lene and Laila were from Norway, Mandi from Leeds, Uk and the other girl was from Holland. We stood at the Spire for a while, chatting away.
We then went for dinner at T.G.I Fridays, which is probably the coolest restaurant I´ve ever been to! Loud awesome music was playing and the food was delicious! Especially the dessert, yuuuum! I really recommend it, go there for dinner during your next time in Dublin!
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| Jack Daniel´s chicken |
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| Rich, moist chocolaty cake topped with vanilla ice crean, hot fudge and caramel sauce topped with chopped pecan nuts. |
We chatted and hung out, it was really nice! All of us were of course looking forward the evening, with the great Croke Park concert.
The concert itself was, as I already said in previous posts, incredibly magical and fantastic. The audience of 85 000 people joined in every song and cheered, laughed and cried!
Like as I already told you, is Westlife moved us into the heart and means more to us than many other things in our lives. So it was no wonder that the tears fell down out cheeks when we with song after song got closer to the end of the concert and the end of a large part of our lives.
For 13 years we have grown up with Shane Filan, Nicky Byrne, Kian Egan and Mark Feehily. It was sad and unfortunate that now forced to say farewell to these great lads!
♣ Saturday ♣ We started the day with another yummy breakfast (Full Irish for me, as I earlier mentioned) and we then met up with Lene. At the same time, I met a friend of mine from Sweden, Malin, who also was in Dublin for the concerts. We chatted for a while.
We decided to take a tour with the Hop On, Hop Off! sightseeing bus, which took you all around Dublin and stopped at different tourist attraction, such as Trinity College, Dublin Zoo and Guinness Storehouse, which we would be visiting this day.
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| Art in St Stephen´s Green |
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| Art in St Stephen´s Green |
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| The smallest pub in Dublin, takes 20 ppl |
We hopped off at Guinness Storehouse. We took the long tour all the way up to the Gravity bar, where we got a 360* view all over Dublin and we also got to enjoy a pint of Guinness, which tasted delicious!
Since we didn´t get concert tickets for Westlife´s final concert at Croke Park, I had bought tickets for us at the cinema. The final show was being broadcasted at cinemas all over the world and at the Savoy Cinema at O´Connell Street where were around 300 people watching.
It was with mixed feeling I sat there, knowing that after this night, there would be no more Westlife. No more albums coming out in November/December, no more wacky video moments on YouTube, no more awesome songs that gave you goosebumps by the first tune...
The live broadcasting would start at 9pm and before that, they started to play the first Greatest Hits album. It was a lot of cheering, hand-clapping and sing-a-longing. And I personally got chills when some of the slower songs came along and I got closed to teary-eyed.
Then the album Turnaround started playing and I said to Angie and Ammi, 'I hope they don´t play Obvious...' as that song is so so ... well, gorgeous and means a lot to me + the music video, OH MY GOD! Don´t you think they played it! And the tears started running for me, it was ridiculous! I didn´t even let go completly, because I couldn´t seriously sit there crying like I don´t know what before the concert had started... But there was nothing I could do about it, the tears kept coming...
Thankfully, my two friends totally got where I was coming from and they didn´t think I was totally weird - or atleast, weirder than I already am ;)
❤ to ya girls!
And let me tell you, this photo was taken before we knew what was coming. We wouldn´t be this smily at the end of the night, let me tell you!
When it was about 30 minutes til showtime, music videos started to show. And let me tell you the flashbacks we got! Of course Swear It Again was the first one and the lads looked so small in that one! Then followed others like e.g. What Makes A Man and You Raise Me Up. More tears for me during the last one, Oh my God!
The final concert was in deed... OH MY GOD! It was beyond amazing, magical, wonderful, kickass awesome... And the farewell speeches the lads made, OMG! I was crying more than I´ve ever cried in my whole life at that moment. It didn´t help that the lads themselves got very emotional, that only made it so much worse!
Like I said, on Friday I was more excited about finally seeing Westlife after all this time even if I knew it was also the last time *probably* I´d see them. Watching the final concert made it so much real... This was it.
After the concert was over, all three of us stayed in our seats, bawling our eyes out. It was so painful, I can´t even think about it without tearing up now. Thankfully, we also had eachother to comfort...
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| Photo: iNet |
It was with red eyes, from all the crying, broken hearts and heavy steps that we walked out from the cinema. We had earlier decided that we´d go to a pub called Grand Central, where they paid tribute to Westlife and they even had a special-made drink but they didn´t serve that one when we got there. Anyways, it was good. At the table next to us sat some girls that appeared to be Westlife fans as well, I think they were from Norway and they wanted to join in our celebration toast for Westlife!
Sláinte!
Like I said, they paid tribute to Westlife at Grand Central, which meant that they played Westlife songs. When the more uptempo ones everyone clapped and sang along... until the slower songs came. There were times when I simply thought to myself, 'Are you trying to kill me?' and I especially thought this when Us Against the World came on. Tears, my friends, tears!
Lene, Laila and Mandi later also joined us. When we were finished at Grand Central we went outside and we said goodbye to each other.
We then went back to the B&B and we were exhausted, I tell you, from all the crying and all the emotions - everything.
When arriving at the B&B we started talking to some German, Austrian and Polish girls who also stayed at the B&B, who´d attended the concert as well. We started talking and got along really well with them. I later wrote down their names from the guestbook and then added them on Facebook *hihi*
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