Hostel review - our private room with private bathroom.
The shower was much, much better. It has a rain showerhead only, but the shower was big enough not to get my hair wet when I was not washing my hair. The shower was so good that I did not want to get out the first day. No toiletries were provided, except a pump container of hand soap at the sink, but our purchased Johnson and Johnson body wash lathered so much better than our provided body wash at the last hotel, important since we did not bring a poof.
Tea kettle and tea provided in the shelved closet in the second picture. Good space and was quiet. The windows had closing shudders and drapes. The only issue was all the outlets were at floor level and none near a mirror, so I had trouble curling my hair. Front hair I could see the ends to start curling, but in the back, I had to move down slowly and have Travis tell me when I was at the ends.
The hostel also had shared rooms with 6 bulks. I did not determine if there was a room of male 6 bulks and one of female 6 bulks. There was only one shared bathroom. I did check it out in the middle of the day when it was empty, and the showers and restroom stalls were fully closed so peeking in was not an issue.
The second night in the kitchen we talked to two American ladies from Iowa. One was studying in York, UK and the other flew in to travel around Ireland with her. As mentioned earlier, having access to the kitchen and the included breakfast foods was very nice. Also, meeting and talking to others was fun.
Morning in Drogheda
We planned to go to the Drogheda Museum at Millmount, but it was closed for the Bank Holiday. It was a little pricy (We think it was going to be 8 Euros each. But it was hard info to find, so this could be wrong.), but there did not seem to be much that we had not already seen in Drogheda. Pictures of the outside. I liked their historic markers.
We then went to Butter Gate. You could not really walk up to it, but there were other gardens in the park to look at. This park is across from the main bus station, so we had seen Butter Gate before better from a distance. Butter Gate is one of Drogheda's last surviving medieval town gates; it was built by the Normans in the 13th century.
We went across the river to Magdalene Tower; this is the only surviving part of a 13th-century Dominican friary.
Then I found a still existing telephone booth. I did not try the phone, so I don't know if it still worked. There was an electronic ad screen to the left of the phone and a full ad on the back, so it was really more of an ad than a telephone.
We stopped at Subway for lunch and restroom before heading back to the hostel to pick up our luggage. We ate at Subway another evening in Dublin to try to the Irish toasties; it was okay -- similar to a normal sandwich to me.
With luggage collected, we tried to figure out another Irish TFI bus system called TFI Go of pre-buying a ticket, instead of using the TFI Leap card -- we were out of money and a top off was only in increments of 5 Euro. Travis had the app installed from doing research at home; I installed it the night before. It was a little tricky to use. You pre-buy the ticket and then activate it within 15 minutes on getting the bus. We activated as we could see the bus pulling up. Then show the activation to the driver. It was 5.30 Euros, and we were heading to Swords to stay near the airport for an early flight. The ride was about an hour.
Swords in the next post.