Not even a week in Ireland for us, but that’s okay because the Smirnoff team in Dublin had a lot of stuff in store for us. A photo shoot with some of Ireland’s biggest models, a dinner party at one of Dublin’s best Thai restaurants - Diep la Shake - a city tour, a fashion show at Trinity College and a Diageo tour of the Guinness museum.The first thing we did when we got to Dublin was check into our hotel and map the city to see where we were. Considering I change countries almost three times a month, I do really well with getting myself around these places. The team got together and we took the public transport to the Diagio office, which was also part of the Guinness headquarters. After our brief about what we were going to be doing in Ireland we had a Q and A session and I tell you it was one interesting conversation. Questions about leprechauns, rainbows, drinking, Saint Patrick’s Day and clover leaves started flying from everyone’s mouth and I guess it was a bit typical. Either way the answers were all answered with disappointment and we go on to doing more serious things like check out this Guinness factory.
I have never been to a beer factory before the Guinness one and come to think about it I haven’t even been to the annual beer festival that’s held annually in Montreal, but I will next year. After spending a couple of hours running around the place and discovering the world of beer making, we ended the tour on the top floor and savoured a tall glass of Guinness and for some reason it just tasted that much better.
The Irish team did a really good job in showing us around the city with a city tour that gave us the luxury of jumping on and off buses that came around every 20 minutes. Luiza, her best friend from Brazil Marina, and I got on to the bus and went around the whole city stopping at museums and historical places. I like the idea of having this kind of system because it gives people like me the opportunity of seeing all the famous places and interesting things to do in and around Dublin. At one point we noticed a crowd waiting outside a hotel and I decided to wait and see who would come out and to my surprise it was famous band member and one of the actors from The Sopranos show.
Smirnoff was sponsoring a fashion show at Trinity College with cocktails so the Smirnoff team got almost front row seats to see some of Dublin’s local fashion gurus at there finest. It was my first fashion show, except for one I was in a long time ago, so it was nice to see a show from the audience’s point of view. It wasn’t really my thing because most of the clothes were things I would never wear, but they did have a couple of things I could see people wearing. Like everything in life it was a great experience and something I can say I did on this great experience we’re all on. A couple of days later, the team took us to dinner at a Thai restaurant called Diep la Shake where we met two models and to my surprise they were there doing what they do best - modelling. Trinity College is a really old school and the campus was amazing. It made me wish my school had such historical background.
