We had one more stop to go on our Irish adventure and it was Dublin. I have 2 old work friends Pete and Dee who have recently moved there and Pete was kind enough to offer us accomodation at his place so we headed there.
The drive in was pretty uneventful as we took the motorways and we were soon arriving in Dublin. I must admit it was a little strange arriving in Cherrywood where Pete lives as it’s a new suburb of Dublin so everything is new, in the process of being built or not yet built and all the buildings were very much like what we would have in the Sunshine Coast. Something we don’t associate with Europe.
After a quick catch up we headed into Dublin to be shown the sights and have some lunch. Lunch turned into drinks (Guinness of course) followed but a whisky tour, followed by dinner and a pub crawl. There is a pub on every corner in Dublin so we didn’t have to walk far. We got home a little worse for wear but very happy we got to experience Dublin in all its weekend glory.
We decided to be a little more cultured the next day so hit some of the museums in the city. We first stopped off for some much needed brunch where we proceeded to a nice little rooftop restaurant only to be evacuated from the building due to a fire. We did smell smoke when we were walking in and did see people on ladders but I think we were all so desperate for food we just shrugged and said if it was serious surely they would not let us in. Well turns out it was!
Luckily we found food just down the way and refuelled and somewhat refreshed we hit the museums. The first one being the natural history museum which was fascinating but what we were after was the history of Ireland which is what we found at the National museum of Ireland. There was so much information in there you could spend days! Some of the most fascinating exhibitions were on bogs and what has been found over the years when digging for peat. They have found butter in containers where people however many hundreds of years ago would store their butter to keep it fresh and then forgot about it. As well as completely preserved bodies which were buried in the bogs centuries ago, mostly having met gruesome deaths but fascinating nonetheless.
We said goodbye to Dee and Pete the next day and set sail for Wales on the ferry after spending a thoroughly enjoyable 2 days in Dublin. There was much more to see but it just means we will have to come back! S