Moving along in no particular order, we’re back to Dublin for this next set of photos. Once again, the point here is just to share photos from my vacation. I’ll add comments in the captions here and there. I hope you enjoy. Let me know what you think in the comments and please share some great spots and things to do in, and around, Dublin. I plan to head back there in a few months!
I like to start my mornings with a coffee walk. This guy had the same idea.
These next few shots are just random early morning scenes around Dublin.
The Long Room is the main chamber of the Old Library at Trinity College.
Most of the 200,000 books in the collection have been removed for a major renovation project.
The Spire stands in the center of O’Connell St.at almost 400 ft in height. The stainless steel sculpture is meant to represent the resilience of Dublin.
The portal is a public art installation It’s part of a network of portals in cities around the world that allow visitors from those cities to interact with each other in real-time. Learn more at www.portals.org.
There’s too much history to share in the limited number of characters I can type in this caption. Learn more at dublincastle.ie
The elder of two medieval cathedrals in Dublin.
Even though I don’t drink alcohol, no trip to Dublin would be complete without a visit to St. James Gate/Open Gate Brewery. I do love Guinness 0.0, their non-alcoholic offering, and find it to be almost indistinguishable from the leaded version. The couple that I had right here at the source were the best Guinness I’ve ever had… NA or not.
After visiting the brewery, we hopped on the tram, then a train, and headed to the town of Bray, and specifically, Bray Beach. It was a little crowded, but still a more relaxed atmosphere than the hustle and bustle of the city.
Back in Dublin… I’d tried to capture these chimneys a few different times with little luck. This was from the next morning when we boarded the ferry to Holyhead, Wales on our way to Birmingham, England.
Stay tuned…