Where Have We Been?

So, everyone is probably wondering what happened to those crazy fatties who ran off to Europe? Last we posted we were wandering the streets of Rush gazing lovingly into the ocean and camping, that was nearly two weeks ago so I thought I would update everyone.

First Question: Where are we?

Answer: In Dublin

oh look, there's a picture right now of some building in Dublin.

Anyway, so how did we end up in the insane and much dreaded Dublin?  Well, we were in Rush and we decided we would head south to Dublin on our way toward Rosslare which would get us a ferry to France, yay!

Once we got to Dublin though we realized a few things.  Camping sucks.  Nate has openly admitted his fat rolls find it highly uncomfortable and he emerges irritable whenever we camp, too bad we planned a two and a half month camping trip ha ha. Along with camping, cycling with massive amounts of camping gear REALLY sucks, especially in a big city, particularly when people drive on the wrong side of the road and pedestrians and cyclists alike have a limited concept of what a red light means.

What this all adds up to?  The morning after we returned to Dublin we get in one of our many small arguments. Nate wants to go back to the first hostel we stayed at (Dublin International) get a job there and have free room and board.  They had listings all over the place that you could get free lodging for a week if you worked for 20 hours.  Kicking around Dublin for an extra week or two to save approximately 210 euro ($315) isn't such a bad idea. Along with it we get free internet, beds, free breakfast (probably at least $90) and the chance to get our barrings.

Nate was selling it, but I wasn't particularly keen on the plan.  The point of coming to Europe was to travel everywhere and see everything, I didn't want to be chained down to a job, especially after I talked to the manager and they said they could hire us, but only if we worked for a month minimum.  The huge advantage to that is that for a month we wouldn't have to pay for lodging, internet or breakfast and we would have a base to come and go from if we wanted to still travel around, and we could go by bus which would save us time and we would probably see more things in the end. Jonathan, the boss, said if we wanted to go to Paris we could set it up with him and he would schedule us to have our three days off a week all in a row, so six days off. Staying here for a month would save us about 960 Euro, which is around $1440. All in all it sounded like a good plan. We would be saving about twice as much money and we could go places via bus, which means we would see more highlights than lowlights, unlike if we were cycling. I didn't want to give up cycling and camping both of which I love, but as long as I kept on it we could cycle to places closer and really get entrenched in the Dubliness of it all. 

  This also meant we get to hang out in the hostel a lot lol.

So we took the job.  We are now inmates at the Hostel.

The courtyard where I drink tea almost everyday.