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Todays Menua
We are flying premium economy, and got a menu for tonights dinner, and tomorrow morning breakfast. Day 01
Today we expected to be a long day, since leaving mid-day, and traveling for 14 hours or more, would be tiring, even for young folks. Well, we started on April 29
th, going to the airport around noon, and getting to Dublin around noon on April 30
th. We switched planes in Frankfurt, to make our final destination in Dublin.
The plane ride was on the large Airbus 380. We had a dinner, and a breakfast served. Not much sleep, but some. While not individually plated by a chef in the galley the food did not taste like airplane food that I was accustomed to.
We met my brother and his wife at the airport. We coordinated flights to be there close to each other. The initial wait time was going to be around 30 minutes, but as we all know, not all flights and arrivals are as booked. Several things caused us to be later than usual, as well as Michael and Gail. They wound up waiting only 5 minutes for us outside Customs.
We had several places we wanted to see and hired a driver to drive us around, telling us some of the high
Breakfast
I didn't get dinner photo, too hungry and just ate it. This is an omlettte with grilled tomoatoe and spinich, fruit and roll. spots about Dublin, give us insight on various landmarks.
One of the most interesting was the Spire of Dublin. It is on the Liffey and we found out that there are some nicknames for it that are not very flattering. One that Alan told us was “the Stiffy at the Liffey”.
We wanted to see the Guinness Brewery, Dublin Castle, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Book of Kells and the Long Room Trinity College Library. We had tickets, and didn’t have to wait in line, so we entered, and enjoyed the discussion with a curator, and found out it was a live research library. But, you didn’t just walk in and browse the shelves.
Because of time constraints, several of the sites were “drive-bys”, Dublin Castle, Guinness Brewery and Storehouse and St. Patrick’s Cathedral. The Brewery is not open for tours like some of the craft beer producers at home, and the Storehouse is hard to park and get to. The Castle is not one of the better Castles in Ireland, and we are planning to see others. We wanted to see the Book of Kells, and the Long Room, which is a functioning library for the college, and
The Oldest Pub in Ireland
We didn't have time to go in, but did get some photos. a historic collection of very old books.
The final site we wanted to visit was the Battle of Boyne, where in 1690, William of Orange defeated King James II of England.
From there, we made it to Armagh, where we spent the night.
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James Keating
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Oldest Pub?
How old is the oldest pub?