A Quick Visit to Dublin, Ireland

We made it to Dublin! After our GREAT stay with our cousins in Norway, we took a short flight on SAS from Oslo to Dublin. We stayed at Clontarf Castle hotel(where they served Guinness) on the North Side of the ciy. We walked all over our area. Everyone walks in Europe...did I mention that! We were near a park and the Bay of Dublin, so we did a lot of walking there, too. And we got one more item checked off the Bucket List: Golf in Ireland. We played 18 wonderful holes with some of the all time oldest rental clubs in our experience. Deer Park Golf

Course, in Howth, was where we had the pleasure of testing our skills against an Irish course. It was great fun, as was the Guinness in the Clubhouse after the round.

Dublin is a GREAT little city, with so much rich history. We almost didn't know where to start, but we began with public transportation into the City Center, and we walked and walked and walked. Except when we had lunch in Fitzgerald's Pub, with Guinness.

We felt so lucky to have seen Trinity College, The Book of Kells, Oscar Wilde's birthplace, the Bank of Ireland, the Temple Bar area, the River Liffy, O'Connell Street, Dublin Bay...just to name a few of the things we experienced. And we ate new foods, too: Black Pudding, White Pudding, Brown bread, lamb stew.

Did I mention: we drank Guinness?

It was an awesome trip. We want to go back.