A good breakfast and off to join the Dublin open top bus tour as this is often the best way to see a city in the first instance and then you understand the areas you wish to visit.
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| Our Tour Guide Bus Driver |
We found the bus stop and joined the bus and the driver was also giving the commentary which was quite good and also humorous but then we discovered it was the last stop and he would not continue for about another 15 minutes. So we opted to stay on his bus rather than listen to a pre-recorded voice and we are glad that we did as his comic side was brilliant.
We passed the Millennium Spire which cost 4 million Euros and is 397 feet high and put up three years late due to planning permission challenges. A complete waste of time and money said the driver and three years late
We also passed a graveyard where the Irish guy who devised what is known as the ‘Crossword Puzzle’ now resides, and as the driver says his grave is easy to find as he is buried two down and four across.
Anyway we enjoyed the bus tour and went via the huge Guinness Brewing plant where they are just about to step up production by thirty percent. There is a strange smell of hops coming from the brewery which is not to nice. One funny thing, the Irish have built a large hospital to treat patients who suffer from the effects of too much alcohol consumption right next door to the largest brewery in Europe, good planning ay? Hic!
We finished the tour and then headed down the main shopping streets as we are not really in to museums and churches etc but looking around is fine. We went down O’Connell Street and then on to Grafton Street which is the more expensive shopping area. We had a bowl of soup in a little shop which was excellent and then continued our walking around until about 4pm when we were both a little tired.We had originally planned to visit a supposed good Steakhouse but ironically we passed in whilst on the tour bus and were not impressed and so we have decided ,as the food was fine in the Hotel last night, we would try again.
Following a really excellent steak and a bottle of wine we watched the Arsenal Match and Barcelona were all over them and it was disappointing that such a usually good English team failed to provide competition.
Oh well then off to bed for an early morning start.
