Dublin - Day 1

We arrived in Dublin by bus shortly after noon today. It was cheaper and simpler to go by bus rather than by train. It was a short walk to the DART line where were able to catch a train to the outskirts where we had reserved an AirBNB for two nights. It’s a short, easy walk from our train stop to the AirBNB.
After unloading our luggage and a quick break we were back on the DART headed to downtown Dublin. Once there we spent the next few hours just randomly exploring the downtown and all its pedestrian friendly streets as well as a few points of interest such as “The Dublin Portal” which is a big, 2-way, looking glass/video screen with a live view of New York City. You could interact with people gathered in front of the “New York City Portal”. Emma played a game of rock, paper, scissors with someone!
The city of Dublin has a history dating back at least 800 years so there are lots of historical sites and other points of interest worth seeing. These include Dublin Cstle, The Book of Kell’s, The Spire, St. Stephen’s Green, Trinity College … . I’ll let the photos speak for themselves.
We went out for dinner at an excellent Turkish cafe where I had a chicken schwarma dinner that was delicious and huge! Laura had falafels and Emma a lamb bowl. After dinner we did a bit more exploring downtown. I wanted to head home to watch soccer so left on my own while Laura and Emma did some more walking about downtown.
In my haste, I took the wrong DART train out of downtown and ended up a long way away from where we were staying. I had to back track and transfer onto a different train. Instead of taking about 20 minutes to get to the AirBnB, it took more than an hour. I was fortunate that there were still a fair number of trains running at the time otherwise I might have been in a pickle!Read more