Marc's Public Blog - Trips to other locations

After walking around the city the first Saturday and gotten fairly lucky with the Ha'Penny Bridge musical I was able to see at the last minute, I got some tickets to see the famous Riverdance, which happened to be showing in its native home over the summer.
I went with a coworker and his fiancée, and quite frankly I initially almost wlaked out as the show opened with recorded "dubbed" tap dancing, which was not entirely in sync with the dancers. My friend did not notice right away, but I was able to tell right away and it bothered the crap out of me.
Luckily, that was only during the opening and after that the tap dancing was either amplified or heard directly. I talked to one of the managers after the show and he said they had problems with the sound carrying throughout the room (understandable for tap dancing), although IMO that does not excuse pre-recorded taps.
That said, the rest of the performance was quite good, and varied from two black talented black dudes who had a tap dancing and style contest with the resident Irish (you got served style), which was frankly hilarious (and very well done too)
All in all, a good show. You can find the rest of the pictures, and a few videos in my pictures from Dublin

Oh, yeah, no, wrong blog, I got confused, sorry :)

Anyway, I stopped in Dublin on the way home. While this week I didn't do too much except work the regular shift and then evenings to match Mountain View time, I spent the day outside visiting the town today.
Quite nice indeed. I'm just lucky it didn't rain today (the weather here is crap, just like the food I got at work in Dublin :) )

This book is probably older that your country by a factor of more than 2 :)


I ran into a gay pride that day, funny

I finished the evening after a little local fun, by going to a Musical I noticed in the paper, which was set in Dublin in 1921 during the civil war. It was a bit of a cross between Les Miz and Riverdance, which was a bit funny. That said, overall it was pretty good (I'm a tough customer, it's hard to top les Miz in that genre and I hear that Victor Hugo isn't writing any new musicals nowadays :) )



This was the Ha'Penny Bridge Musical :)

Anyway, good time was had, more tomorrow, time for bed now...