Sunday, July 19: Dublin visit (Trinity College, St Stephen Park, St Stephen store, part of Phoenix Park) and U2 shopping. There are some very interesting stores for official U2 stuff and bootlegs. The more complete store about U2 tapes, CDs and videotapes is called Rythin Records Store, at the Angle Bedford Row/Crampton Quay, Dublin 2. There is another good store, Collector Record in Wickow street, near Grafton Street which is a great pedestrian street. My advice: ask for listening/viewing all the boots you plan to buy before buying them, the sellers are reliable but sometimes they have undeliberate problems with their recording. However, if you have a problem, they always accept to replace your tape.
Monday, July 20: Visit the Dublin Tourism Center, there are great shops there where you can find many kinds of souveniers. Visit also the National Gallery. We decided to have lunch at Captain America's, on Grafton Street. And we're absolutely right!!!!! This restaurant is really incredible!!!! There are so much U2 stuff there!!!! Imagine, Bono's red guitar signed by the 4 of them, singles signed by one or another member, Bono's muscle shirt signed too, Larry's drums and many pictures of them. :-))))))))))))))))))))))))))) I've even seen pictures on the way to the toilets! I shot pictures of all their stuff. And during shooting, i heard a Dubliner saying, "Hoho, they're fans!" Hehe! Sure we are! :-D We had a little time before the meeting with the other French fans, so we've also seen Bonovox Store on Earl Street.
On the afternoon, we came to Point Depot at the end of the quays, at the Port of Dublin. Warning! You have to walk about 30 min to reach it. Don't believe any Irish who says to you, "It's not far, just 10 min walking". And to go to Principle Management which is on the other side of the Liffey (the river which crosses Dublin), 30-32 Sir Rodgersons Quay, you have to come backwards because there is no bridge at this place which allows you to cross the Liffey. :-(((((((((((((((((((((((( So, we reached the PM after about one hour walking, thinking about all the effort U2 made us do. ;-) We're really crazy fans to act like that ;-))) We didn't see Paul McGuiness as we were hoping because we've seen a very beautiful Jaguar in the parking, but the guardian who came after 6 pm and talked with us a little, saying to us we could meet Jerry, the security man of PM the next day about midday because this man knew what our 4 lovely boys were doing because he was always at the same place with Bono or Edge. Waou! My longer sentence until today! ;-)) Then, we came back home, dreaming about a meeting with 4 lovely boys...
Tuesday, July 21: On morning about 11 a.m. we left to PM to meet Jerry. Some of us prefered to go directly to the Hanover Studios and left us at PM. We met Jerry like the guardian said to us the previous day. He's a very nice guy who accepts to give you good informations about the band if he can trust you. :-)))))))))))) So, don't hesitate to show him you're a reasonable, reliable fan, i mean, not hysterical and he'll say to you interesting things. For instance, we said to him we've seen Bono's house on Saturday, then he explained to us the week before, there were fans there who jumped into Bono's garden in spite of the dogs! We were so angry about this behaviour we said to him, "What stupid people!! They're even unable to respect his private home!" and it's after that he told us Bono was in France, Larry probably still in New York and Adam and Edge in Dublin. What ??? Adam in Dublin too? Hope! Hope!
But he thought they weren't recording at that time :-(((((. We said to him we already knew Edge was there because we've met him last Saturday night on the street and we told Jerry how it happened. And he was smiling, because we said to him Edge's look was really sweet, he let us shoot him as much as we wanted... Then he replied Edge was so kind with people because he just had a new baby and i replied mischievously, "He! We already know this, she's a girl". And he was a little surprised we could already know this. Well, thank you the L.A. Wireling who passed the info last October. ;-) You know who you are. And all that we told him proved we were good fans (IMHO). So, he said to us we were very lucky to see Edge but we had a little chance to see him again. :-((((( And he promised to us, "The next time you come to Dublin, go here first, i'll tell you where they are and if you can meet them". :-)))))))))) I hope Jerry has a good memory, hehe!! He can trust me, i'll never forget this sentence ;-)
To be continued....