Sunday, March 15, 2009

In Dublin's Fair City

Seeing as we took the children away on our 10th wedding anniversary. When an opportunity arose to go to Dublin on our own we jumped at it. Cheap flights and just for the day. One of the first things we found was this a bar. We just had to take a picture of our baby boy's name.
Then it was on to the Guinness Storehouse where 250 years ago Arthur Guinness founded the famous brand. To be honest I was bored, it's not my sort of thing but David enjoyed it.
The Views from the Gravity Bar at the top were just fantastic. You could see the whole of Dublin and it really makes for some breathtaking sights.
We came out of the storehouse and jumped in a taxi where the taxi driver kept going on about 2 churches St Patricks and he kept highlighting they were protestant churches. He recommended Oliver Gargarty's for lunch. It was expensive and not what we expected. lacking in a bit of atmosphere. It was a shame as the bar downstairs was buzzing but the restaurant lacked that little bit extra.
After lunch we had a wander up O'Connell Street the main thoroughfare of Dublin and wandered by the river. Then we hopped on a bus tour which took us an hour right round Dublin and some great sights for us to remember for next time. Then we found a wee coffee shop and had a cake and a hot drink before heading to the bus stop for the bus.

We had lovely couple quality time yesterday. Something we were desperately needing. I love David so much and am so glad we managed to work things out after the last year. Hopefully if money allows we may nip away for another break somewhere together soon.

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