We picked up our rental car on Sunday morning, excited to start traveling around the country, but also quite nervous about driving on Irish roads that are notoriously narrow and treacherous. We decided that our first excursion wouldn’t be that…
Saturday afternoon at Kehoe’s
After seeing all that great memorabilia at The Little Museum, we decided to go for a pint in the Grafton Street area. We wandered around for a short while, deciding to sit down at a pub just off of Grafton…
The second U2 post…
Did you really think I’d stop at one? After visiting the Book of Kells, we walked from Trinity College over to the north side of St. Stephen’s Green, where there is a fairly new museum called The Little Museum of…
Trinity College & The Book of Kells
Our hotel was close to Trinity College, but we saved visiting the Book of Kells for Saturday morning. We arrived there early, well before it opened for the day, but there was still quite a crowd ahead of us in…
The U2 post…
As a die hard fan of the band since the early 80’s, this post is obligatory. One cannot visit Dublin and not see some of the historic sites around the city that pertain to U2. First lesson, Bono, née Paul Hewson,…
Kilmainham Gaol
After we sampled a pint at the Guinness Storehouse, we made our way out to the bus stop to hop on for our next stop; the Kilmainham Gaol. This is a very popular tourist spot and it is recommended to…
Guinness Storehouse
Our first hop off stop of the Dublin bus tour was The Guinness Storehouse. Yes, it was still fairly early in the morning, but we were ready to learn how Guinness is made. Fortunately, as we were one of the…
Hop on, hop off….
When researching places to visit in Dublin, we realized that although the city is quite compact, walking to some sites would take quite some time. We looked into the different options for public transit and learned about the Dublin Hop On,…
Temple Bar
After lunch, we made our way over to the Liffey River, crossing over the Ha’penny Bridge. We walked along the river, keeping our eyes peeled for a particular hotel, The Clarence, which is owned by Bono and The Edge of U2,…
Grafton Street and our first pints…
We made our way through Fusilier’s Arch and walked onto famed Grafton Street, a pedestrian plaza filled with restaurants, shopping, pubs and local street performers. Two of the performers who got their starts busking along Grafton Street are also two of…
Lightning Bolts….
We made it to Newark Airport quickly, fortunately there was very little traffic on a Wednesday afternoon. After saying our goodbyes to Courtney & Ashley, we got in line to make our way through security. The line was not terribly…
10 Club Lottery
Anyone who knows us is aware that we love live music. We especially love Pearl Jam concerts and in 2013, made it to 7 of their shows. Immediately after seeing them for the first time in 2003, we became members…