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SLEEP IS FOR wimps. High-energy tourists need only apply for a challenge set by tourism chiefs marketing Dublin as a city break destination.
In a very natty multimedia web story on ireland.com, weekend visitors are given a guide with a difference – 50 things to do in Dublin in the space of 48 hours.
It starts like this:
Tired yet?
Then it gets into pretty detailed specifics, sending tourists to the Cobblestone bar in Smithfield at 5pm on Friday evening for a pint, and then onto the Bison Bar across the river for a BBQ and whiskey sour. It then sends you to Whelan’s for live music at 8.30pm and the Vintage Cocktail Club near the Central Bank at 11pm.
Friday night will look like an increasingly blurry montage of these stills from the guide, we imagine:
Despite the inevitable hangover if you were actually to hit all those liquor pitstops, it has you up and out the door and standing in the National Gallery at 10am, in Trinity before midday, the Little Museum of Dublin before lunch, and upwards and onwards through a flea market, the Guinness Storehouse, dinner at The Pig’s Ear on Dame Street, theatre at Smock Alley, and drinking in the Bernard Shaw pub near Portobello.
By Sunday morning, you’re on the Dart (cradling sore head in hands at this point, surely), swimming at Seapoint, up Killiney Hill and down again to Grafton Street to listen to buskers, eating gourmet burgers, browsing craft shops, and possibly fitting in a walking tour, wakeboarding in Grand Canal Dock, sailing on Dublin Bay, on a city cycling tour.
Wrecked just reading about it?*
*We think they probably don’t recommend actually trying all of these things in 48 hours.
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It won’t be complete till they’re sent to centra for a chicken fillet roll and 20 johnnie blue
There is one thing the forgot to include as a challenge, not get ripped off. That’s the hard one.
I’ve lived in Dublin for 11 of the last 14 years and haven’t done many of those things!!!
That”s sad
I’ve lived here last 33 years and I havnt done any of tat
That’s sad
Sure you can go anywhere and ‘have a pint’ – theres more to Dublin than being drunk.
The best thing to do for 48 hours in Dublin is get the hell out of that hole
Having been fortunate enough to have visited many cities, Dublin is up at the top for me. As a Culchie I love it’s energy, it’s wit and its soul, you my friend are indeed best out of there for all our sakes
I agree with you James, as Londoner who loves Dublin, one of my favourite cities in the world.
Fantastic place… If you have never being anywhere else! The most soulless hole in the entire world. Crap people with a crap attitude
Nice bit of marketing there. Although I’m wary of these challenges laid down in advertising (Aldi Challenge, Cheeky Volvic and Danone Activia spring to mind – as if eating yoghurt and drinking water constitutes a challenge)
green thumb for cheeky volvic, hated that gimp
In other words come to Dublin and get on the lash
Go to see where the monkeys play billiards – apparently only a real dub knows this!
Ah here….you have to tell us….?!
Do you know the Five Lamps?
#goldieLocks – apparently its at the bottom of Kildare St near Nassau St – carved into the stonework of a building there
Well done lads. Advertising binge drinking again I see. There’s so much more to Dublin than this and it annoys me every time I see these types of articles.
A massive sambo on big thick slices of fresh bread in The Palace Bar or Grogans on Sth William St…and the auld chat.
Cringe
Dublin people are honest and full of wit. The garden of rememberance and Parnell Square.
Dublin can be heaven at a quarter past eleven with a walk along stephens green . In the summer and the heat and a job to earn a bit of spending money.Peace and Goodwill must prevail. Christians must lead for a peaceful world.
Faith Hope and Charity , the greatest gift is charity.
Great marketing
I love Dublin! Took a rickety old boat round Ireland’s Eye yesterday, wasn’t the best weather but it was fabulous to get so close to the seals… And only a tenner!
Guinness, Craft beer, whiskey and live trad all in a couple of hours and costs less than the price of the free drink you get. probably the best value in Dublin
http://www.dublinfreewalkingtour.ie/#!whiskey-beer/c1cmf
The Hazel House Café!
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