Our trip to Ireland ...
September 2012
Day 4 ... Thursday, September 20
After breakfast at the hotel, we jumped on the bus.
Actually we were a little late. The tour guide had to call
us to see if we were going on it. All four of us had
forgotten that we signed up for this optional tour. Once we
did get going, we enjoyed a tour of a couple of areas of
Ireland. We traveled through the countryside of Wicklow and
went to Powerscourt where there are formal gardens promoted as
Ireland's most beautiful. We had lunch at the cafe
there. From here we went to Glendalough, an area where St.
Kevin founded Ireland's most important monastery in the sixth
century. St. Patrick is well known to be the patron saint of
Ireland. Actually, the country has three patron
saints. St. Kevin is another. The third we will
encounter later! We did enjoy the day even though we had
planned on touring the Jameson plant and missed it as a result!
This was a full-day tour and we got back to Dublin just before
dinner. We ate at a pub called the Old Storehouse where
there was a very good musician playing. Marcia had Guinness
Stew and David had bangers and mash. They were both very
good.
These pictures were all taken in Dublin.
on to day 5
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