Dublining

We spent a few days getting oriented in Dublin, staying in a nice AirBnB hosted by lovely people. Dublin was great, and very busy, like any capital city, with lots of old churches, castles, and scenes of Irish history. This morning we left for Slane, passing through Ratoath, Skeen and Yellow Furze.

Ernie scoping out our next sightseeing

Mr. Wilde 

I really want to see a Smew just so I can say it

Two good-looking guys in glasses

Ernie's 1st Irish beer

Alex outside the Temple Bar

We swung by Temple Bar, where I saw the actual webcam that I had been looking at the past few weeks. The webcam is below the cross on the pharmacy, above the leftmost flower basket. Temple Bar webcam link here.

Alex planning cycle routes in our Dublin digs

Master Bike assembler at work 

Coast Guard station on Bull Island.

The nettles seem more rugged here

Oh, that evening light! 

'Nuff said.

Alex at the James Joyce Centre

First Old World cathedral I've ever seen.

We touched it. Still can't figure out what makes it anti-climb.

OMG they have decent gluten-free beer in Ireland!

I call this one "Bike in the Liffey"

I'm asking him if I can borrow his horse 

Ah those quiet little country lanes...

Slane Castle