2 Pubs With One Stone

So, I eventually got around to visiting the Irish pubs in Dalian last night. Started off having a BBQ in a restaurant in Hei Shi Jiao, which is 2 tram stops away. Found a cosy little pub near there as well. They had Christmas lights downstairs and were playing dodgy versions of The Green Green Grass of Home among others. Besides that, it was grand. The jacks was actually clean and had soap!

After that, myself and another Irish lad hit for town to meet up with some others. You can have great fun chatting with the taxi drivers here. They $are really down-to-earth and chatty! I guess the working-class folks are always the most friendly!

Visited the 2 Irish pubs in Dalian (The Tin Whistle and The Hole In The Wall), which are 2 doors down from each other! Don’t know if that was just coincidence! There was good atmosphere even though the All Blacks were hammering the shite out of us in the rugby. Seems like there are limited resources available for the fun-loving expat in Dalian. A handful of pubs and I’m told that the only club worth going to is JD’s, which we ended up in. All in all, not a bad night out!

Weather is getting nippy here these days! Can feel it in the air today! Have to go and buy the long-johns soon! Maybe I can teach my class via radio link from my apartment, as they do in Australia! And I hear that some of the restaurants do delivery! Now, if only the supermarket did the same! For my winter vacation, I’ll definitely have to head south!