Dublin... the sequel

I went to Dublin for the second time... it was cold but less rainy than the first time. Itinerary and pictures:

First, we went to Grafton St and walked around. We went to Trinity and went in to see the Book of Kells, which currently isn't possible, but we saw the copies and according to Louisa it wasn't much different than seeing the original.

Grafton Street:

selling flowers:


A blurry picture of the street where "Once" was filmed:


After that we headed to the Natural History museum where they have such things as "bog bodies" which were a bit disturbing. And old. Anyway your standard Natural History museum - I liked it.

After that we were HUNGRY so we went to Bewley's for lunch.

Even though we had just eaten lunch, while we were in Temple Bar (a tourist area, basically, with some kind of funky shopping) we stumbled upon a little market with goodies to eat. Yum, fresh-baked! It was like being at the St. Joe farmers' market, except colder and with mostly baked goods rather than produce.

Then we headed for the Guinness Storehouse. We passed some things on the way.

Christ Church Cathedral:

Crazy masks!

Since I didn't take any pictures at the Guinness Storehouse, I put up this picture of me wearing the tourist-priced hat I bought there. This picture was taken in my room at Mountainstown, if you're wondering... By the way, YES, I drank some Guinness! And NO, I haven't learned to like beer. (Ahem also I am wearing a tank top, not a sports bra.)

Anyway, the Guinness Storehouse knows what it's doing with its tours. We learned about Arthur Guinness' famous lease: 45L a year for 9000 yrs. And we walked through and learned about the process of making Guinness and then got to the top, and you are in a big glass circle, essentially, so you can see all over Dublin, except that it was too cloudy to see much yesterday.

It's cool because on the windows there are quotes from James Joyce about what you're facing. So, when you're facing St. Stephen's Green, there is one of his quotes, as you look towards Trinity, there is another, etc. Pretty neat.

After that it was time for Amy and Louisa to head for the football (that is, soccer) match and I caught the bus back to Cavan.

Louisa and Amy, on the bus to City Centre: