Welcome to Ireland! We arrived at about 5.45am and we were tired!
The first thing on the itinerary was sleep, so we parked up and slept for a
couple of hours. It was hard to get up but we had things to see and do with our
first stop being Dublin Castle. Most of the parking is pay and display so we
parked out of the city centre and walked in. Arriving at the castle we found
out it as closed until July 2013, bummer! But Paul was pretty keen to head to
the Guinness Storehouse so I don’t think he minded that the castle was closed…
The Guinness Storehouse was a Fermentation plant from 1904
to 1988 and is now a visitor centre. At the beginning of the tour you get to
see a copy of the lease that was entered into by Arthur Guinness in 1759 which
gave him a lease term of 9000 years at the rate of £45 per annum.
At the end of the tour you can go to the Gravity bar and get
a pint of Guinness to taste. Both of us believe the Guinness tasted a lot
better in Dublin! We did think the tour was a little expensive at 16.50 euros each, but nevertheless we did enjoy our time there.
From the storehouse we walked into the city centre to look
around and soak in Dublin. So far we have found Dublin to be quite expensive,
the campsite we stayed at, Camac Caravan park, cost 22 euros plus showers were
1.50 euros each, for six minute showers and electric was 5 euros. We didn’t get
electric as we don’t really need it and they had plugs in the laundry room
which we used. I suppose we are noticing the cost of things a lot more than
normal as we have to stretch every penny.
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| View from our walk into town |
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| Outside Dublin castle |
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| Statue alongside the river |
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| Pic of a building with a bridge connecting them |
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| Ashlea approaching the Guinness storehouse |
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| Taste testing the Guinness |
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| A snap of the barrels that were made to carry the Guinness back in the day. We watched a video on how the made the barrels and my goodness did they take a lot of effort to make! |
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| A sculpture inside the storehouse, can you guess what it might be? |
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| Our two pints of Guinness |
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| Some of the old advertising boards |
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| Paul relishing his first sip |
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| View from the Gravity bar |
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| Paul saluting to the Guinness |
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| View of Dublin city |
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| Trinity College |
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| The infamous Temple Bar |
I took you to Trinty College when we went to Dublin. I am afraid you will find everything down there very expensive. They are what you might say "as being on the bones of" Thanks to those Tax Lawyers and such like!!
ReplyDeleteYea I remember going when I was younger we didnt actually go into the Book of Kells etc. Mm unfortunately it is but we did kind of expect it.
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