Dublin

Dublin was grand!  Hustle & bustle and live music AND Guinness!  Also side note: the tea in Ireland is  Amazing.  Also the fish and chips are out of this world!  Also in one meal you can be served over four different types of potatoes.  It's quite funny.  People in Dublin walk extremely fast.  To the south (in uhmerricka) it would be considered as fast as a car.  Maybe I'm just used to slow walkers and slow talkers in Georgia.  Even older people book it.... maybe that's how they stay so skinny with all them starches.

But one part of Dublin was not all smiles.  It was actually super tragic and affected me a lot.  Well first let me explain that pedestrians don't always have the right of way and if they are walking and it's not time to cross on the sign then the cars will keep going no matter what.  Cars don't care about pedestrians and pedestrians don't car about cars and everyone is moving fast.

So...While walking to go to dinner in the middle of Dublin City centre, a lady started walking a second before the sign said she could and a taxi hit her straight on.  She fell on the pavement in the middle of the road flat on her face.  It made a huge crunch and everyone around was in shock.  She didn't move, her whole body face down and legs bent on the ground.  The guy with her devastated and reacted by starting a fight with the taxi driver and screaming.  People in the street were crying and covering their mouths.  No one picked her up.  No one moved her.  She didn't move.  The impact was so hard and from where I was standing with my friends, I couldn't tell if she was alright.  It seemed as though she died on impact but she could've just been unconscious.  It took a while for the police to come and the traffic just kept piling up with rows upon rows of cars behind the scene.  It was probably the most horrific thing I have ever seen.  I started thinking about her family and her friends, her husband?, the taxi driver who will now feel guilt for the rest of his life.   I almost couldn't believe what I just witnessed.  Huddles of people kept staring while her vulnerable body was laying on the cement.
I was worried to walk across crosswalks for the rest of the time in Dublin.  But accidents happen.

Other that horrifying experience.... my stay was wonderful.  At one of the pubs at night, O'Neils, it had live Irish music and the pub was so full with people.  There were people doing irish dancing, everyone was singing, and of course drinking.  It was great fun.