Visit to Dublin - July 2005
Continuing the "city break" theme of the year - the next trip
was to
Dublin, for just three nights, with our friend Chris.
The "Monument of Light", a hideous new steel needle
poking into the
sky in the middle of O'Connel Street. Bring back the "Floozy in the
jacuzzi"! |
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Looking east along the Liffey, from the south bank near
the Four
Courts |
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The Custom House, built in 1791 |
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In the courtyard of Trinity College |
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The interior of Café en Seine, on Dawson
Street - a huge place,
good for lunch; we didn't go there in the evenings |
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The "fag on the crag" - statue of Oscar Wilde in the
corner of St
Stephen's Green park |
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The Grand Canal, towards the end near the Grand Canal
dock |
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The southern extension of the Grand Canal dock, set out
as a marina
but a bit short of boats as yet |
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The Waterways Visitor Centre on the Grand Canal dock |
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A "Viking Splash Tour" vehicle in the main part of the
Grand Canal
dock; there were sailing dinghys as well |
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The south bank of the Liffey where there is a lot of
new
development |
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Cranes and new buildings on the south bank of the Liffey |
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A new pedestrian bridge near George's dock |
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The Famine sculpture on Custom House Quay |
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The images are all from the first two days, when the weather
was lovely -
it poured with rain for the second two days, and we spent a lot of time
sitting in Café en Seine!