After an uneventful flight to Dublin, we checked into the Conrad on St. Steven’s Green. Even on the bus ride from the airport (8 miles in 45 minutes) it becomes apparent that Dublin is a very large and fast paced city with the traffic you would expect to accompany such a city. This proved problematic for us as we only had one night to see it all. I saw a sign on the side of a city bus that read “You can walk there faster” and for the most part that is true. We did get on a tour bus to see some of the sights including St. Patrick’s Cathedral, and to get to the Guinness Storehouse which is a little ways away from most other sites near the hotel. The brewery tour is well done. Even though the best part is the ending, we paused to have lunch in on of the restaurants that looks out over the city and serves Guinness bread that is delicious. Then it was on to the end of the tour-The pint of Guinness in the Gravity Bar at the top of the storehouse where you have a near 360 degree view of Dublin.
Since Aaron was feeling a little under the weather, we decided to call it an early night with dinner at the hotel pub. Unfortunate since it was the 14th and St. Valentine’s bones lie just a few blocks from where we were staying.
We woke up the next morning and headed out to Trinity College to look at the Book of Kells in the library at Trinity College. As we left Trinity in the rain, we turned around and saw a rainbow over campus (picture attached). We went to the Hertz rent a car to search for the pot of gold.
