As it's a very long story, i will tell you my crazy week in Dublin day per day. Let's go:
Friday, July 16: We were 16 French U2 fans in this Aer Lingus plane from Paris to Dublin. And do you know the first thing we've seen at the Dublin airport ? A poster with Boyzone on it ! No !!!!! :-((((((((((((((((((((. Bad omen ! At the meeting we had in Bad Bobs pub, we only met Marcy (thank you again for coming) and anyone else. :-((((((((((((( Where were the others ? Well, it was a bad way to begin our week. The only good thing about it is the fact this pub is almost faced The Kitchen :-))))))))))))))))))))))))))) And the pub is great, we even had live music!
Saturday, July 17: Morning, we chose to begin with Windmill Lane and Hanover Studios. Obviously, we shot some pictures of the walls in Windmill Lane, if someone here knows who drew the golden arch on one of the walls, you can thank him/her. It's great. Obviously, we left some signatures on the walls with the date 07.18.97. If you come there later, look for our signatures... you'll know i wrote one of them.
At the Hanover studios, we didn't stay much time, but we saw a Mercedes parked near them. Hummm... We also met two guys who work beside the studios and they explained to us the band never come to studios on weekends and rarely on Monday. So, we decided to come back on Tuesday.
On the afternoon, we decided to go to Killiney to see Bono's house and Edge's house. At the station we asked a woman where Bono's house was and she showed it to us immediately :-)))))))))))))) Waou !! It happened like that: "Please, where is Bono's house ?", Answer: " It's just there" (she showed it with her finger), Answer: "Thank you very much". We were absolutely amazed by this behaviour. It seemed to be so incredible to us. We met Italian fans in front of Bono's gates too. Bono's house is white and Edge's house is pink. I failed to see Edge's house but some of my friends saw it. Both can be seen better from the beach but Bono's one can be even better seen from the DART train between Killiney and Dalkey (the station before Killiney if you come from Dublin city), because the train passes almost under his house.
At Bono's gates we talked with the houseguard, he said to us, "Bono is in France, Edge is in California with Morleigh and their baby, Larry is in New York and i don't know about Adam. And they don't record at this time". Ooopppss :-(((((((((( He talked a little more with us but didn't give us more infos about the band.
On the evening we came back to Bad Bobs, we had decided it could be our meeting point for all the fans. We had planned the meeting at 10 pm but four of us were there at 9.30 pm. And can you believe this ? They saw Edge himself passing in front of them with 2 women from The Clarence Hotel to go to a restaurant named Eden in Sycamore Street!!!! This street is close to the Bad Bobs pub. The fans were so surprised, they could call him only when he almost arrived at the restaurant. They asked him if he could stop for pictures and he accepted :-))))))))))))))). And when we arrived at 10 pm, they told us, "We've just seen The Edge and we made pictures of him with us" and we didn't believe them because they didn't get autographs. We replied "HAHAHA, it's a joke !". But when we saw Sabrina (one of them) so excited, we decided to believe them.
And we went near to the restaurant to try to see him. And he was at a table near a window, so we could see him, we could see his black cap :-))))))))))). Obviously, we decided to wait for him in front of the restaurant's doors, sitting on the pavement faced to the doors. And can you believe it ? We didn't wear any U2 Tshirt, however, an Irishman came towards us and asked us if we were waiting for Edge! How could he guess it? He surely knew he was there. Edge left the restaurant at midnight and Marie (a belgian fan who was in our group) went up to ask him for autograps and pictures. But he answered, "I can't now but I can come back in 10 minutes". So, we waited 30 minutes more before he came back. He saw us sitting as soon as he entered in the street and came towards us with a very big smile. Maybe he thought it was funny/great to see fans waiting wisely for him in the same place than the first time he has seen us. When we asked him for pictures and autographs, he said "Sure, no problem" and let us do everything we wanted. And if you could see his look, it was sooo sweeeeeet :-)))))))))))))))))))))))))) I'll never forget his look and his smile !!!!!
He accepted to sign everything we suggested to him. We asked to him what the band was doing currently and he replied, "We're writting now, not still recording". It means IMO the new album is on the way but will not be finished soon. However, we can't know exactly when it will be released. Then, he asked us if we had enough autographs and pictures and left us to come back to the restaurant. And we come back to our homes dreaming.........We were so happy it was hard that night to sleep.
To be continued......