Ireland/UK trip - July 2014

My Dream came true!

In July 2014, I took my dream trip to visit Ireland! A group of 4 of us spent 2 wonderful weeks exploring parts of Ireland before heading to Cardiff and London. I can certainly say I left my heart in Ireland - I’ve been dying to go back ever since I came home!

Now please sit back, get that scrolling finger ready, and enjoy this epic photoblog of my trip.

Arriving in Ireland - Deliriously excited at this stage (I hadn’t slept in god knows how long! At least 36 hours I think):

We stayed in the centre of Dublin. This is the view from our apartment where we based ourselves for our stay in Ireland:

Right across the River Liffey (over the Ha’Penny Bridge) from the famous Temple Bar District:

We stayed in the cream-coloured building. Just to the left was the Ha’Penny Bridge, and down to the right about half a block was O’Connell Street:

Our first morning in Dublin, on the Ha’Penny Bridge:

Dublin GPO - not only the chief office of the Irish Post Office, but it was the headquarters of the men and women who took part in the Easter Rising of April 1916. You can actually still see the marks left by the bullets in the columns:

St Stephen’s Green:

Trinity College and the Long Library:

Bubbles and Buskers on Grafton Street:

St Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre:

Guinness Storehouse, Dublin:

Baby Tasting Guinnesses!:

The view of the Dublin Mountains from the Gravity Bar at the Guinness Storehouse:

Dublin Castle, which isn’t actually a castle, but a palace…:

Dundrum Shopping Centre (old buildings and pretty water fountain show):

Christ Church Cathedral: 

And we also went to the Arlington Hotel Trad Dinner Show:

...to be continued...

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Anne and Elizabeth, daughters of John and Sarah Churchill, in the Long Library

The Long Library

The Long Library

John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough, and Queen Anne

Queen Anne in the Long Library