WorldTour2003: dublin
Posted June 13, 2003 05:33 PM
Al and I have been in Dublin for just over a day now. We have done the usual touristy things: the National Gallery (okay, a few good works, better stuff was by recent local abstract artists) and the National Museum (much smaller, but much better experience than the British equivalent).
We found a excellent bakery down around Temple Bar called, suprisingly, The Bakery. Just after that was a photographic institute of some sort with a design graduate show on. The quality varied a bit, but was mostly quite good. One of my favourite pieces was a illustrated children's story, The Boy Who Painted Cats.
Dublin is a nice place, we met up with our vaugely-itinerant french girl Clare last night after meandering around some first-class suburbia (it contained some fantastic photo opportunities which will be taken advantage of tonight). The three of us had an excellent dinner at Cornucopia, a vego place near the very impressive looking Trinity College, then met up with some friends of Claire's at The International Bar, a pub up the road. One of them, a local named Nile, had some very entertaining stories.
Like the time a bunch of his friends wanted to keep on drinking after the pubs had all closed, so they took the three-hour long ferry to Wales. Once in international waters, it can start serving drinks again and by the time they arrived at the destination, the pubs there were opening and they kept on drinking. Were booted out of there when the pubs closed and did the same thing back to Ireland.
Dedicated, they are over here. The amount of Guiness advertising is staggering as well. I don't think I will make it to the brewery, we're heading over to Claire's place tomorrow and that will be most of the afternoon gone.