Posts Tagged ‘Dublin’
So Here We Are
That’s probably the best way for me to start this off today. Here we are again, all the running around is over with and we’re back where we started. But are we really? Okay, the question really should be am I really? I don’t think that I am. Fourteen total hours on an airplane gives […]
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Tags: baseball, books, change, Dublin, movies, music, questions of the day, Twitter, writing
So the trip is over and done. We had a rather uneventful return after we spent the last morning in Dublin walking around and getting some Irish wool for some friends. We then had a quick lunch at the hotel and waited for our car. And waited. And waited some more. We then asked the […]
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Tags: Dublin, Guinness, the Irish people
After spending the entire day at the Guinness Storehouse, we were feeling pretty good since we had a lot of Guinness at this point. We had about 90 minutes at the hotel before we were supposed to head out to Whelan’s Pub for the shows that night. They had not announced what headliners would be […]
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Tags: Amy McDonald, Dublin, Guinness, Jake Bugg, Leaders of Men, Mumford & Sons, Whelan's Pub
We had gotten all of our arrangements finalized with Guinness and the contest people the day before. Guinness would have a whole day’s itinerary for us when we arrived there and I asked us what time we would like to arrive. Michelle and I both agreed it might be good to get there earlier so […]
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Tags: Dublin, Fergal Murray, Guinness, Guinness Storehouse, master brewer, storehouse
We purposely woke up early on day 2 in Dublin for several reasons. First, we wanted to have breakfast. Breakfast was included in our package at the hotel, so we wanted to check it out. Second, we wanted to get an early start and do some sightseeing. Neither of us seemed to have much of […]
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Tags: Book of Kells, Christ's Cathedral, Dublin, Dublin Castle, full irish breakfast, Grafton Street, Ireland, St. Patrick's Cathedral, the Hairy Lemon, The Long Room, Trinity College
Okay, I am back, or at least I am trying to be back. We returned from our trip to Dublin about 10 days ago and I have taken a bit to try to get things back together. I have a little break in my workload and everyone here at home is trying to back into […]
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Tags: Aer Lingus, Brooks Hotel, Dublin, Dublin Wax Museum, Guinness, Ireland, Peter's Pub