“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
~Eleanor Roosevelt
We hit a snag in our travel right off the bat when something delayed our flight out of Chicago to New York. Fortunately, the delay was acknowledged before we even checked in for our flight and Delta re-booked us on a direct flight with Aer Lingus. Aside from the usual problems with sleeping on a plane, the flight was only 7 hours and included beverage service, dinner, morning coffee/tea, and a ham and cheese croissant. With all that excitement, who can sleep? I used Sominex and did get 3 hours. Jeff dozed on and off.
We landed at 9:30 a.m. Dublin time, picked up our "DoDublin" passes, and caught a bus into the city. A short walk got us to the hotel by 11:00 a.m., too early to go to our room. After storing our luggage, we joined the DoDublin Hop on Hop off city bus tour. After the tour, we purchased a local SIM card, ate fish and chips, and returned to the hotel to get into our room. After a short nap, we got ready for the evening--a musical session with the Balaclavas in the Back Room of the Cobblestone Pub. We called it an early night in favor of a restful sleep for the next day.
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| Riding outside, on top of the bus under sunny skies! |
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| Commemorating the 1916 Rising |
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| St. Patrick's Cathedral with the statue of Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness |
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| Irish Museum of Modern Art |
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| Áras an Uachtaráin (House of the President).--used as a model by Irish architect James Hoban, who designed the White House in Washington, D.C. |
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| Cracks me up that the doorknobs are not always functional. In this case it's just a handle to pull the door closed. And there is none inside the room! |
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| Ceremony dedicating a plaque at the family home of Sean MacCloughin, a forgotten hero of the 1916 Easter Rising known as the "boy commandant." |
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| That's not how most of us learned to play music! |
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| Jeff giving it a try |
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