County Dublin The plane swung out wide over the Irish Sea and presented me with a sweeping view of Dublin Bay before descending over the Howth Peninsula to land. There were large patches of green in the water. Earlier I had my first glimpse of Ireland when we had landed at Shannon to pick up [...]
If you’ve only got a couple of days in Dublin, the Traditional Music Pub Crawl which starts in the St. John Gogarty’s Pub in the Temple Bar is a winner, as is the Whiskey Tour at the Old Jameson Distillery near The Four Courts on the North Side of the Liffey. If you like whiskey [...]
First of all, Dublin is an extremely “walkable” city. Nowhere is really far from anywhere else, and the impressive architecture and the River Liffey make for a pleasant walk as well. There are two things that strive to spoil this experience. Firstly, the traffic is awful. Not nearly as bad as some places I’ve had [...]
