Dublin

 While we are winding down our Ireland portion of the trip, dropped the rental car and clubs off, caught the bus to downtown where we decided to do a pub crawl of old pubs.  First stop Stags Head, started in 1780, amazing windows and wood carvings, also Trent said the Guinness was very good!

 
These onto the Brazen head , 1198, oldest pub in Dublin.   We experienced typical Irish weather, rain on our walk. 




After the pub crawl we went to the Celtic nights dinner show where we heard, you guessed it, Celtic music and seen Celtic dancing.


Our last morning we did a walking tour with Kieran, the hidden gems and good overview of history and some tall Irish tales!  The Dublin Castle was actually painted like the wall, way back in days of yore. The tower dates back to 1100, the rest were destroyed by fire.  The main building was constructed in the 1800 and would have been painted like the back side to show wealth. 

Highlights of the tour included trinity college, massive churches, one with a heart in cased in iron, and the old Parliment building, which had all the windows blocked out as they used to have a window tax!

Off to Prague 




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