Ex-Dubliner rufusni is anything but green when it comes to exploring Ireland’s capital. Except on St. Patrick’s Day, that is: last year she was a first-timer at the city’s famous parade. Her review, part of a recently expanded journal, describes it.
It’s not clear, however, which group is more festive: the one marching in the parade or the one watching it. On the route, dancers, flag-wavers, fire-breathers, and drummers perform energetically for two hours; on the sidelines, rufusni describes the “great buzz” of the crowd, not to mention a bystander who, “via signing, managed to get a date with a girl on the third floor of an office building opposite.” Either way, she calls the procession “definitely a fun time in Dublin” and “would recommend it to anyone.”
Of course, the reveler has recommendations for visitors during other times of the year. Her latest pick? Bewley’s cafe, a Dublin institution much loved on IgoUgo and a “regular stop” for rufusni. We hope the St. Patrick’s Day Parade becomes a regular stop, too—we’d love to hear about the 2009 festivities.
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