Friday, October 12, 2012

Days and nights in Dublin

We had two rainy days in Dublin - go figure, and now the only sunshine we've had in our whole trip is now while we are sitting on the ferry heading back to Wales.
Yesterday we spent the day in Dublin walking the streets in the rain. We had a lovely soup from The Farm, an organic restaurant. We walked down the main shopping street to the only indoor shopping mall, totally covered in glass and it appeared as if you were outside in a garden.
We bought nothing but that's pretty normal for us.
In the evening whilst the rest of the tour people went on an outing, we met up with our friends who hail from Wpg. Hans and Brenda are in Dublin for 2 months doing research. We went to a pub for a delicious supper and then to another pub for some live music. We had to be up at 5 this morning so we headed back to our hotel around 9:30 but not before we caught two leprechauns on the street.
It was so nice to see friends in an obscure place like Ireland when we can't seem to manage to get together when we live in the same city.