Inné agus Inniu
(Yesterday and today)
Co. Mayo appears out of the left side windows. The flight across from Galway to Dublin took about 20 minutes (of the 6.5 hour flight.)
"The Tart with the cart" aka Molly Malone. Statue on Grafton St. near Trinity College and the Temple Bar tourist area. Downtown Dublin is *incredibly* crowded. Tall old brick buildings, constant stream of buses and taxis and private cars, and thousands of peds crowding every sidewalk.
We'll add more details later tonight. Now we're off to see the Guiness plant. And...Daly, we are in touch with Lucille who has been very helpful with our technical problems.
MM
Glad to hear you've both arrived safety in the Emerald Isle. Have you seen any SNAKES yet ? - oh, wait, they were driven out 1600 years ago. Technical problems notwithstanding, sounds like you're having a nice adventure, although sorry to hear about the hooligans keeping you awake at night. Go out there and show 'em some yankee Irish kick-ass spirit, whydoncha? Funny, I wouldn't expect downtown Dublin to be traffic-choked and noisy. I have this image of Queen Anne-style edifices, chestnut trees, and an amiable pub on the corner where you can a nice plowman's lunch of bread, peas, and cheese for under two bucks. I guess I've read too much Geoffrey Keating and not enough James Joyce. Speaking of food, you've haven't said much about it. Is it palatable? Can you get good antipasto there? What happens if you have a craving for some vindaloo? Tell me everything isn't boiled to a pulp or roasted to a crisp as it was for practically every dish I ordered when I was last in London. (But Dublin isn't London.)
ReplyDeleteI've been keeping myself spiritually connected to your trip by listening to a Celtic Station on my Apple TV world radio stream. Some really nice old fashioned stuff like Angela Murphy's "A Dacent Irish Boy." Lot's of roamin' in the bonnie green stuff, very sentimental. Makes me want to go out a buy a beer so I can cry into it!
Enjoy, enjoy and enjoy! We're living the Irish life along wid' ya!
Sorry Glen. It was tough to reply yesterday. Also, Google/Blogger makes it near impossible to post from any OSX or iOS device. Many beautiful old buildings here but if you stop to look you're gonna get run over by 100 peds...or by 3 buses. True 'dat. :^). Lots of good food here if you can afford or find it. So far we've mostly eaten pasta.
DeleteKeeping my eye on the ball here ... how was the visit to the Guinness plant?
ReplyDeleteYou won't believe it but I haven't had a beer yet and Mike just quaffed his first - a Moretti - in the Italian place we ate into tonight. Go figure.
DeleteI'm really enjoying the blog. Hope it doesn't burn up your 250 MB of data, or whatever it was. Can I understand that the iPad and iPhone were fixed, or recovered themselves? I agree with Glen - I wouldn't have expected it to be so crowded there. Sounds pretty chaotic, but my guess is that you will adapt to some of it. At any rate, you'll be on the road soon enough to quieter and more scenic places. Enjoy all of it, whatever it is. Thinking of you both.
ReplyDeleteBoth devices reloaded iOS7 when a good WiFi zone appeared. Had to install G+ to add photos to the blog. Challenges and solutions. Having a gr8 time.
DeleteOh fine. So not only do you have a foreign city, sleep deprivation, and wrong-side-of-the-road challenges, but now you have iOS7 to deal with! Good luck with that one!
ReplyDeleteHi Kate & Mike.
ReplyDeleteThis is a test of the emergency posting system. Were this an actual post, it would be accompanied by something witty and clever, or at the very least, interesting.