Dublin was our last stop before heading back to London. We started our visit by walking through the shopping district toward St. Patrick’s church. The church is considered important because St. Patrick is credited with bringing the Catholic religion to Ireland.
While we waited for Dom's mom and aunt to visit the church, a random nice gentlemen decided to strike up a conversation with us and recommend we visit the first public library in Ireland: Marsh's Library. We followed his advice and visited the really cool early-18th century library that was filled with super old original books and had an exposition showing various notes and doodles made by past (famous) visitors, in margins of the old books. One interesting feature of the library was the reading cages that were installed to prevent theft of the books.
It was the perfect time of year to visit the parks as they were all filled with tulips everywhere.
We passed a good part of our day just walking around the town and shopping streets.
We also decided to do the Guinness Factory tour, despite the fact that none of us are really beer fanatics. The tour was extremely “touristy”, but it was interesting to learn that it all began when Arthur Guinness signed a 9000 year lease for the factory.
Dom and I experienced our first taste of Guinness… sadly, for us, it pretty much tasted as expected - like beer :(
They taught us how to pour a perfect pint of Guinness, so now we're certified Guinness pourers.
We went to Dublin’s oldest pub, The Brazen Head, for drinks and dinner. Jen had an unforgettable Beef & Guinness stew.
The pub had a unique folklore “story-teller” performance happening upstairs, unfortunately we got there too late so it was too full for us to attend. Guess we’ll just have to come back another time!!
