Sky was blue, sun was shining so as I was taking a bus to Dublin there was just one song in my head, Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling (..."Tonight's gonna be a good good night..."). Plan was to go Phoenix park in Dublin and rent bicycles for a day and that was what we did! But before I will start the story about cycling tour, few words about Phoenix park. Phoenix park is located only around 2,5 kilometers from Dublin center, the park area covers 707 hectares that are surrounded by 11 km of perimeter stonewall. On moving around in the park there are 30 km of footpaths, 22 km of roads and 14 km of cycling lanes. These features will make Phoenix park larger than all London's city parks put together and more than twice the area of New York Central Park.
When we rented the bicycles, guy at the rental place that its going to probably be warmest day in Ireland during whole summer... And I definitely agreed with him, it was easily over 20 degrees and almost cloudless sky, and I forgot again my sunglasses... First we head up to the center of the park, where is a huge cross around 20 meters high.. Built only because some pope someday visited Ireland. There we had our first break and after that we all were comfortable with cycling and were ready to go extreme, off road time!
It all started running down from the hill and and continued after crossing the fields a bit deeper path... After that we noticed that we didn't mountain bikes so we started to "rank" our shortcuts in a same way how they rank skiing hills to be aware of whats coming up.. So whoever was on the lead decided to take a shortcut needed to shout out "shortcut", and the color (green was easiest and black most difficult one).
Second stop was on the field where around 500 "bambis" were just walking around free. I havent ever see wild deer so close (if zoos wont count) than there because they were not that afraid of people. I even almost manage to touch one but then there was some stupid little kids who were running and yelling scaring deers off...
Day continued onward with several shortcuts and stops around the park... We had our packed lunch that we enjoyed and returned near deers after that just to lie down and doing nothing. After "lunch nap" we passed a white house quite in the middle of the park, unfortunately that wasn't the the office of US. President but instead it was the residence of US ambassador. So if you dont have chances to get to Washington DC, became an ambassador in Ireland and you can still say that you're living in a white house. And if you are not US. citizen then try to became president of Ireland who also has its residence in the park. After cycling around whole park we still had some hours left before needed to return bikes. Since sky was still blue and it was lovely and warm we parked bikes on the lawn and just relaxed under the sun in a result of caching the color of tomato... in Ireland, again!
Sporty day makes people hungry, don't you agree? Obviously a bbq time so on way back to Maynooth picked some meat and light up the grill. It was actually so warm that we came around with an idea to carry table outside and sit outside on the backyard while eating, damn the food tasted so good! And even that it was almost 9pm I still was able to wear just a t-shirt and shorts. Summer is seriously here. Since we have had such a great day so far, it would have been pity to end it up already so whats you gonna with the expression "all the roads lead to the roost", perfect way to wrap up the day. Band was good, craic was awesome.. To be honest, don't remember when I have last time had so much fun in the roost :D As roost closes there was still some energy left, few after drinks and finally to the bed at 6am. What a (perfect) day!
When we rented the bicycles, guy at the rental place that its going to probably be warmest day in Ireland during whole summer... And I definitely agreed with him, it was easily over 20 degrees and almost cloudless sky, and I forgot again my sunglasses... First we head up to the center of the park, where is a huge cross around 20 meters high.. Built only because some pope someday visited Ireland. There we had our first break and after that we all were comfortable with cycling and were ready to go extreme, off road time!It all started running down from the hill and and continued after crossing the fields a bit deeper path... After that we noticed that we didn't mountain bikes so we started to "rank" our shortcuts in a same way how they rank skiing hills to be aware of whats coming up.. So whoever was on the lead decided to take a shortcut needed to shout out "shortcut", and the color (green was easiest and black most difficult one).
Day continued onward with several shortcuts and stops around the park... We had our packed lunch that we enjoyed and returned near deers after that just to lie down and doing nothing. After "lunch nap" we passed a white house quite in the middle of the park, unfortunately that wasn't the the office of US. President but instead it was the residence of US ambassador. So if you dont have chances to get to Washington DC, became an ambassador in Ireland and you can still say that you're living in a white house. And if you are not US. citizen then try to became president of Ireland who also has its residence in the park. After cycling around whole park we still had some hours left before needed to return bikes. Since sky was still blue and it was lovely and warm we parked bikes on the lawn and just relaxed under the sun in a result of caching the color of tomato... in Ireland, again!Sporty day makes people hungry, don't you agree? Obviously a bbq time so on way back to Maynooth picked some meat and light up the grill. It was actually so warm that we came around with an idea to carry table outside and sit outside on the backyard while eating, damn the food tasted so good! And even that it was almost 9pm I still was able to wear just a t-shirt and shorts. Summer is seriously here. Since we have had such a great day so far, it would have been pity to end it up already so whats you gonna with the expression "all the roads lead to the roost", perfect way to wrap up the day. Band was good, craic was awesome.. To be honest, don't remember when I have last time had so much fun in the roost :D As roost closes there was still some energy left, few after drinks and finally to the bed at 6am. What a (perfect) day!
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