Some snaps from our Dublin trip in April. It's a city we've wanted to go to for some time and it being all of a 59 minute flight from London (ignoring the several hours it takes to get to the airport and deal with all that meshugas), it was a manageable journey. It's also a manageable city in that it's not that big and many of the things to see are centrally located.
Tracy got us a super hotel, not far from the River Liffey, which we seemed to cross many times a day. It was also just across the street from the Millennium Spire, a massive, well, spire, that is by a wide margin the tallest structure in Dublin (last picture, taken from the base looking up). We walked through Trinity College, founded in the 16th century, and is typically the case during our weekend trips found ourselves at parks for the kids because at the end of the day all they really want to do is play anyway. Other parts of Dublin look like they're out of a movie set, with cobblestone streets and pub after pub with names like O'Shea's, Dooley's, Callahan's, McMurtry's, Fitzgerald's, Brannigan's, Flannigan's, Madigan's...you get the point. During some down time I also found my way to St. Patrick's (it's Ireland for goodness sake!), built at some point in the 11th century. I'm sure it was a big deal that after two or three hundred years they built a choir school across the street.
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