………………. And, in the end

   Our trip was just about over and we landed back in Dublin on a Friday night layover for our morning flight back home. Mary's cousin Kathleen, who lives in Dublin came to visit at the hotel but couldn't stay for dinner. So after a Guinness, tea and glass of water Kathleen left, and we decided to try to make it into Dublin for some pub food and a walk-about.

   The taxi ride cost around 40 Euros each way but Mary found a shuttle bus at the nearby airport that only cost 6 Euros, and it ran all night. It was quick and easy and we were really glad we found it. We got off the bus in the Trinity College area and looked for a pub on Grafton Street. It was no surprise that we found a few, but it was Friday night on a three day Bank Holiday weekend and everyone was drinking instead of eating.

   We finally found Sheehan’s that was serving food but the upstairs was empty because everyone was drinking outdoors on the first clear and warm evening in a while. We had the room to ourselves for a bit and ordered fish & chips and a beef & Guinness pie before the crowd started to filter in. It was perfect kind of pub food I was hoping for on our last night in Ireland.

   Afterward we walked through the Temple Bar area and then back to the college. There was music playing in my head all night and we stumbled onto a corner pub (Blarney’s) with Irish Flute music coming through the door, and it drew us right inside. Over desert the two musicians were great to listen to and there were Irish dancers due to appear later. But it was already getting late and we were starting to run low on energy. It also might have been the couple of pints I had to drink.

  We bussed back to the hotel and were in bed by 11:00 with the wake up set for 6:00 next morning. Our fun was just about over, but happily there was just a little something more.





…………… Her Majesty’s a pretty nice girl,
                    but she doesn't have a lot to say