Tuesday I woke up sick– nasty sore throat, hard to swallow and breathe sick. Bleh. Thankfully, we had seen most of the things on our list the day before, so we could take it easy. While getting ready for the day, we found Spongebob on TV dubbed in Gaelic, so we were well entertained!
We walked a long way to the Guinness Storehouse and St. James Gate Brewery and had a nice time poking along through the museum. Since I didn’t feel great, it was the perfect low-key activity. On our way in:
I love the vintage advertising! They set up the displays to look as though the characters were really on the beams:
We made it to the top, where you can have a complimentary pint of Guinness and have a 360 view of Dublin. Since I felt rotten and Andy doesn’t drink, we both had pop. I felt really lame, but Andy got into it:
I liked this sign on a beam in the storehouse:
On our way back, I noticed that there are signs all over the city with quotes from James Joyce’s Ulysses:
We stopped in to see the inside of Christ Church, where we had eaten fish and chips outside of two days earlier. There was an organ competition going on, so it really set the mood. We once again decided that we were good on seeing cathedrals… they sort of blend together in memory after awhile.
The tourism office in Dublin is a converted church, so it is by far the nicest tourism office I have ever been in! We shopped in there for tacky touristy items and some very nice stuff as well. By now we were starving, so we ate up the street from our hotel at a French cafe. We were ready for something other than meat and potatos, so it was a welcome change. We loved the cafe, Leon, and thoroughly enjoyed croque monsieur, frites, a steak sandwich, french bread and butter, and coffee. Yum! It’s hard to explain how tasty it was– trust us, it was fab and you should all eat there when you go to Dublin. 🙂
I was tired and icky feeling by then, so we spent the evening watching British TV and being weirded out by the American commercials voiced over in British accents. It was kind of a lame day, sorry. But I got some much needed sleep! And the next day was our adventure into the Wicklow mountains…
The Adventures of Team Samuel 