30th Birthday - November '02
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In November 2002 I finally hit the big one, thirty years on this mortal coil. Ok, so maybe 50 is the big one, or whatever, but when you're hanging onto your twenties by a thread, thirty certainly seems to be pretty big. So when something big is about to happen there's really only one thing you can do, and that's to have a party! So having convinced a few friends that they'd have a great time on the Emerald Isle, we descended on Dublin for a weekend to remember, or at least as much of it that a massive intake of alcohol would permit.
Paul, Guy, Myriam, Udo & Harry checked into the Palace Guesthouse near St. Stephens Green. Apparently it was not quite up to scratch.
Was it the dodgey broken staircase perhaps....
.....or the rather limited space in the rooms maybe?
Either way, Paul does look a tad concerned about the situation...
... but Udo still managed a big smile. Actually I don't think he stopped smiling all weekend. Except for when the nice people in the Guinness Shop on Grafton Street told him they couldn't help him anymore because he had already bought all of their stock.
The late Jim Morrison's band.
Two blokes and a girl in red being pursued up Grafton Street by a large mobile phone. Nice legs too. On the girl that is, not the mobile phone.
Some sights of Dublin.
One of the many many trendy coffee shops constantly springing up around Dublin. Further evidence that the city is rapidly crawling up its own arse.
This is a monument to Chief Geronimo which was erected after the great battle of Grafton Street in 1793 when Dublin was finally liberated from the Indians.
A touch of German in Dublin's fair city.
The Hairy Lemon. A good location for a couple of pints and a few of the many Irish breakfasts to be consumed over the weekend.
Anyway, moving swiftly on, the first big session of the weekend was to be had in the cavernous Zanzibar just on the north side of the Liffey close to the Ha'penny bridge.
Click here to see how it went...