Dublin, I Missed You!
I was so happy to be back in Dublin. It wasn't really in our plans to travel there once again but I sure was not going to complain. We stayed for a total of two days and the plan was to stay and relax while we got over our jet lag. It also gave us the opportunity to sightsee but not stress out about not seeing everything. After all we had been there before and we already saw a lot during our very first visit last 1997.
The changes in the city based on what we remember were quite numerous. For one, O'Connell street was not so busy and totally full of tourists.
I just hope it doesn't take another long 17 years before Marc and I return.
There were many beautiful buildings along O'Connell. This was one of the many which caught my eye.
Wasn't this the Cheers TV show sign?
How could we not see the historic Post Office once again. Whether we liked it or not, it was there and we passed by it each and every time we walked up and down O'Connell Street.
Since it was Tuesday morning around 8 am when Marc and I began our sightseeing walk all around Dublin, local men and women were on their way to work. I couldn't help notice the wonderful fashion the local Irish men followed. They were so dapper.
I love centrally located hotels. We stayed at the Best Western Academy Plaza and it was just a block away from the Gresham along O'Connell.
Inside the lobby of the opulent Gresham Hotel
This was the bar and lounge area at the Gresham
Clery was one huge department store we visited and shopped in during our first visit. Marc suggested we went in to take a look but all doors to the store were locked. It turned out it was closed down due to bankruptcy and all its contents were to be liquidated. There were legal notices posted June 15, 2015. So sad.
The Clery sign outside the store and right by the entrance
We had our first fish and chips meal here at Beshoffs.
This was one of the cross streets before reaching O'Connell Bridge
Right next to the monument in honor of James Joyce on Talbot Street, one of the many cross streets of O'Connell.
The O'Connell Bridge
Like I mentioned in a previous post, the rainbow flags were everywhere.
A view of the Ha Penny Bridge
The Ha Penny Bridge in the back
Right by the Ha Penny Bridge
On the Ha Penny Bridge
Could Santiago Calatrava have designed this bridge?
The Rory O'More Bridge
Heuston Train Station was our main destination on our very first full day in Dublin. We planned on buying our train tickets to Belfast, Northern Island here only to be told that we had gone to the wrong station. We were advised by a kind middle aged Irish male employee to head to Connelly Train Station instead but purchase the tickets on line so as to get them at half off.
Dublin County Council
