10th June - Dublin
Tina is kept awake by dogs barking in the night so didn’t sleep well.
Up at 07:30 and share a shower as they are token operated and only last about 8 minutes, still ended up using two tokens.
Wait for the tour bus to take us in to Dublin, which arrives late but the driver was very nice and dropped us off near to Christchurch (one of Dublin’s cathedrals). First though we try and find Fishamble street as this has a large reptile shop on it – ask two ladies who don’t seem to know where it is but think it’s the one with the ‘corporation’ building on it – council offices. Anyway we find it but it is closed so we go for a coffee and raspberry scone.
Back to the reptile shop but it is still closed so go to the cathedral – very grey and quite small. Spend about an hour there and then go back to the reptile shop, which is now open – huge range of snakes and lizids but the animal husbandry isn’t particularly good with several vivs uncleaned and containing four or even five big snakes.
After a short while we head off for lunch and take quite a long walk in the very warm sun to Merrion Row and find Hugo’s and have a very nice, leisurely lunch – duck and apple salad followed by duck and mashed potato (T) and poached eggs in red wine with lardoons and small onions followed by calamari and a ratatouille sans courgettes. A nice bottle of Muscadet plus dessert – berry crumble and warm apple pie with salted caramel.
Stagger off feeling very full back into the sun and start to head back to the bus stop via M&S – very expensive – get some provisions and then mooch around a few more shops before getting back to the bus stop.
Get back to the campsite around 5 and attempt to sit out with a cup of tea but it has started to get cold and then later (18:30), whilst we are trying to have a nap it begins to chuck it down – well it is Ireland and we have been fortunate with the weather during our stay in Dublin.
Five Dutch ‘bikers’ turn up about 20:00 and set up an encampment of tents near to us – could be a sleepless night if they start to get rowdy.
Fortunately it has stopped raining so they get their tents up without getting soaking – there are four Harley’s and a BMW and all the bikers are quite old, so maybe they won’t be too riotous.
Tina is kept awake by dogs barking in the night so didn’t sleep well.
Up at 07:30 and share a shower as they are token operated and only last about 8 minutes, still ended up using two tokens.
Wait for the tour bus to take us in to Dublin, which arrives late but the driver was very nice and dropped us off near to Christchurch (one of Dublin’s cathedrals). First though we try and find Fishamble street as this has a large reptile shop on it – ask two ladies who don’t seem to know where it is but think it’s the one with the ‘corporation’ building on it – council offices. Anyway we find it but it is closed so we go for a coffee and raspberry scone.
Back to the reptile shop but it is still closed so go to the cathedral – very grey and quite small. Spend about an hour there and then go back to the reptile shop, which is now open – huge range of snakes and lizids but the animal husbandry isn’t particularly good with several vivs uncleaned and containing four or even five big snakes.
After a short while we head off for lunch and take quite a long walk in the very warm sun to Merrion Row and find Hugo’s and have a very nice, leisurely lunch – duck and apple salad followed by duck and mashed potato (T) and poached eggs in red wine with lardoons and small onions followed by calamari and a ratatouille sans courgettes. A nice bottle of Muscadet plus dessert – berry crumble and warm apple pie with salted caramel.
Stagger off feeling very full back into the sun and start to head back to the bus stop via M&S – very expensive – get some provisions and then mooch around a few more shops before getting back to the bus stop.
Get back to the campsite around 5 and attempt to sit out with a cup of tea but it has started to get cold and then later (18:30), whilst we are trying to have a nap it begins to chuck it down – well it is Ireland and we have been fortunate with the weather during our stay in Dublin.
Five Dutch ‘bikers’ turn up about 20:00 and set up an encampment of tents near to us – could be a sleepless night if they start to get rowdy.
Fortunately it has stopped raining so they get their tents up without getting soaking – there are four Harley’s and a BMW and all the bikers are quite old, so maybe they won’t be too riotous.
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