We hated to leave Doolin. Jonathan picked us up at 10:00 for the trip to Dublin. We visited the Obama Mall again and arrived at our hotel in early afternoon. Thanks, Kim, for the hotel recommendation. It worked out very well.
We wandered the pedestrian-only downtown district, or rather tried to. We were overwhelmed by the Saturday crowds. The street musicians had such huge crowds that you could not walk past them.
Ducking down a side street, we lucked onto a wonderful cheese shop and then a pricey, but heavenly quite downstairs tavern. We navigated our way through the crowds back to the hotel and had a nice dinner and pleasant evening, thinking our first impressions of Dublin were not favorable, compared to quiet Doolin.
Sunday redeemed Dublin. We had the tourist districts almost all to ourselves for the walking and sightseeing. We strolled Grafton and O'Connell Streets, the Temple Bar area, and the historic district around Trinity College and Dublin castle. We stopped for a break and coffee, and then spent hours at the National Museum of Archaeology and St. Stephen's Green. We topped off the day with an evening at the Bleeding Horse Tavern, founded in 1649.
We won't talk about our Monday travel day, other than to say that we got to the airport at 7:30 and had no time to spare catching our 9:30 flight to Charlotte. Then we sat in Charlotte through a five hour layover and a three hour mechanical-troubles delay before arriving in Gainesville to have neighbor Peggy waiting for us at almost 11:00. Thank you, Good Friend!!
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| Crowds on Grafton Street |
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| A respite and a culinary delight |
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| Quiet tavern, ahhhhh |
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| Strolling the city |
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| Our kinda confessional |
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| Walking where they drive on the left is hard too |
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| City art |
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| pedestrian bridge |
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| Temple Bar |
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| Nice museum |
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| St. Stephen's Green |
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| Bleeding Horse, 1649 |
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| Reading the specials |
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| James and me in our matching colors |
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| Inside view of the Bleeding Horse |
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