Visitors - Javi & Laura (spanish rellies)

August 2008 was shaping up to be a pretty busy month... but a lovely and fun one too as our usually quiet apartment began to fill with friends and rellies. First up were Javi, Elena's Spanish cousin and his girlfriend Laura - only 3 days but action-packed and lots of fun. That's the thing about 'living in europe', it is that it is all so close! Javi and Laura explored downtown Dublin and loved it... and one day, in a moment of recklessness prehaps or simple curiousity... we all decided to join the masses at what is undoubtedly the most visited place in Dublin, The Guinness Factory... mmm well... the pint of Guinness they give you at the end, though nice enough itself, could not possibly overcome the boredom, pain and crowds of the place itself. Definitely not when you can so easily pop into a snug little pub somewhere and sample the stuff at leisure. But, at least we have now ticked it off our list, never to return... On a better note, we spent a lovely day at Howth, a fishing village on a small peninsula which juts out into the sea, north of Dublin. What a nice spot.. We walked around the harbour, watched some fat seals bounce around, and explored a little of the cliff top walk around the peninsula... we will return to do the whole walk soon...