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Out and About In Dublin

Started the day with a walk through the “Famous” Temple Bar area …
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No temples or bars were open at this early hour so we decided to head off to Dublin Castle

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and then on to St Patricks Cathedral

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where they wanted to charge us to enter the house of God!! aaarrrg!! So we decided to head to the Viking area Dublinia instead.

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The museum was great very informative and interactive. We didn’t notice the time fly …. But our stomachs told us it was nearly lunch time.

The Guinness storehouse was our next stop… Faiza was tipsy just thinking about it!

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Despite the hefty price to visit this place it was quite enjoyable and informative. 7 stories of interesting facts…food…and of course Guinness tasting… Yep even Faiza had a full pint of this dark liquid
Faiza enjoyed it so much that she accidentally took a souvenir home…. Oops!!

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Stumbling out of the Guinness Storehouse (well Faiza did anyway After all she had 1 pint of Guinness and beef and Guinness stew which tipped her over the edge)….Faiza decided she wanted a tattoo

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…..excitedly
I willingly took her to a tattooist ….I didn’t notice however that she was having palpitations at the thought of it… so we lied to the guy saying we would be back later ….
Then we found a lovely little restaurant for dinner

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and then we finished the night off watching / listening to some live traditional Irish music … Faiza wanted to get up and do her version of Riverdance …

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Llanfairpwllgwyngyll (no it’s not spam)

Following a bit of English breakfast, where Faiza brought along her multipurpose tea cosy, needed to do some domestic work, so off to the laundromat we strolled..
With a late start to the day we headed off to the town with one of the longest names in the world , definitely the longest named town in Britton ! Through gusty winds and heavy rain we drove 1.5 hrs to Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
(Try and pronounce that !)
In Wales.
Then on the way back we stopped to see “a Castle” …well it looked like a castle on the outside. Lucky the weather improved a little on the way back.
Back at the hotel just chillin with a pint or 3 (Steven) before dinner (Sunday roast with all the trimmings for only 7 pounds) and an early night.

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