Howth for Irish Food and Dublin for Whiskey

After Kilkenny, we went on to Dublin.

I tried to log onto the internet from the room, and could not get the computer to connect even though I had paid for 24 hours of internet through the business center. Then I took the computer down to the business center (which is on our floor) and could not connect even when I used the LAN cable. Finally after i disabled the firewall, I managed to log on and get email.

Toilet

We had to leave at 6:30 smartly for a trip to Abbey Tavern

Photo from the bus in the evening - unsharpened

Photo from the bus in the evening - sharpened

Photo from the bus on the way to dinner

Harbor from the bus

Sailboats stranded by the tide

Driving along the water

Abbey Tavern

Plaques on the wall

and a typical Irish meal. We both had the

Leek and potato soup

(alternative was Roquefort salad),

Corned beef and cabbage

(alternative was salmon) and I had

Apple tart

and my grandson had ice cream. Afterwards there was Irish Coffee (My grandson had coke and I had nothing), and Irish dancing. At the end they called my grandson, Ryan and Victoria up on stage.

Grandson at the table

Two violins

Irish dancing

Up on stage

Kids with musicians

End of the Abbey Tavern show

While they were dancing, I walked down to the waterfront and photographed the lighthouse, and my first charged camera battery died. I certainly hope I get the charger tomorrow.

Abbey Street in the evening

Sign on right and sign for gallery on the left

Howth Harbour Lights

Howth Harbour

Howth Harbour Light between sailboat masts

Howth Harbour Lights and sailboat masts

Dying Camera Battery

Hotel at night - Dublin

June 7 - We had a later wake-up call this morning and went down for breakfast. The scrambled eggs were all runny, and there was no cranberry juice. Lots of rolls though, and lots of ham, bacon, sausage etc which I don't eat. Some nice sliced potatoes fried crisp.

Dining room

grandson's breakfast

We got the front seats on the bus today, but i was so worried about the camera battery that I did not take many pictures.

Girl on bike ahead of the bus

Canal lock from the bus

Lock keeper's cottage

Our first stop was to be Jameson distillery.

But first we went through Dublin, past the US embassy,

line of people at thr embassy

and

Oscar Wilde's House

Statue of Oscar Wilde - 1977

We went by the statue of Molly Malone, but I didn't get a good picture.

Shelbourne

27 Pearse Street, Dublin 2

Yellow Door

Looking under the bridge

Churches and Buildings I Can't Identify

Saint Patrick's Cathedral

GPO or the Bank of Ireland building?

A government building? (has the Dublin seal)

St. Audeon's?

Abbey Presbyterian Church in Dublin from the bus

The office of the Taoiseach is here

When we got to the distillery,

Outside the door

Copper kettle

Towers and chimneys

Washback tank No 1

Looking inside the mash tun

they were mopping the ladies room floor and wouldn't let us in, so we had to use the handicapped bathroom. The actual distillery is out in the country now, so the old distillery building is just for tours. They took us through the whole process and then gave us a free whiskey drink. My grandson and Ryan got coke and I got cranberry juice with no whiskey in it.

They picked two women and two men to be tasters at the end.

Three of the tasters: Annie-center, Jim -right

One of the women was Ryan's mom Annie and one of the men was Bill who has a Pearson 34 in Maine and the other was Jim who was one of the kings at the banquet the first night. That was appropriate as his stated goal was to drink at as many pubs as possible.

They gave them three Irish whiskeys, one Scotch whiskey and one US whiskey (Johnny Walker). Annie picked another Irish whiskey with Gold in the name which is made by a subsidiary of Jameson. Everyone else picked the Jameson.

Then we went to Trinity College and saw the Book of Kells. No pictures please.

Trinity College

Afterwards, I was completely beat and needed to go to the bathroom, so I bought some postcards and with the change, I got the bus back to the hotel. My grandson was with Scott and his mom and aunt. They walked around downtown Dublin and then came back.

I got on the internet and when my grandson got back I was so sleepy I could hardly keep my eyes open, so
I handed the computer over to him to do his my-space, and I took a nap. About 3, ,my grandson and Scott went out and got pizza. Then he went to sleep.

I continued to be on the computer after he woke up, and about 2300, the internet time I had came to an end, so I said we had to pack to have the bags outside early in the morning as the bus was going to leave at 6:50 because some people had early flights.