2 long flights and 11 hours later we are in Dublin! At first we were nervous because we didn't see our names at the pick-up area at the airport. A lovely gentleman called the travel agency for us and let me talk to the agent. Not long after, our driver, Phil, was there & we found out we were also picking up a lovely lady named Valerie who is 80+ years old and has been living in Johannesburgh, South Africa since 1952 -- she was taking a side trip from her mother's 103rd birthday in Essex, UK! It was a lovely ride in to Dublin with all of us talking and laughing together.
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Valerie, Tiffany, Lisa, & Rachel being picked up at Dublin Airport
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We got to the hotel before we could check in so we took a hop on/off bus tour of Dublin and then stopped to get fish & chips for lunch at a place called Beshoff on O'Connell Street. We had been told on our tour that they did not repair the facades of buildings that were hit by bullets in the Civil War back in the early 1920's -- we could see 3 in the window surround at the restaurant.
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| Beshoff in Dublin |
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Cod & Chips
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2 of 3 bullet holes at Beshoff
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We drove through "Guiness-land" -- the area of Dublin where the Guiness factory is. The Guiness family owns the whole area & have their own church and even their own power plant (just in case there is a power outage in Dublin -- the Guiness must be brewed!)
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Guiness tanks over the River Liffey
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Guiness power plant
There is a lot of history in Dublin and we only got a small taste of it today. We will be ending our tour of Ireland in Dublin next week so I'm sure there will be more.
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