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A jammy craic time in Dublin!

Friday, March 15, 2013

We've been having a jammy craic (pronounced "jammy crack"; meaning very fun) time in Dublin so far!  We've spent our days wandering the city, checking out all of the sites and joining in on the celebration for Saint Patrick's Day weekend.  Dublin is a a city full of nationalism, bronze statues, and old Georgian buildings.  Our first stops on the Dublin tour were the Temple Bar (which has proven much more exciting at night), and Trinity College.

Temple Bar, during the day, is a bunch of bars and tourist shops in the back cobblestone alleyways of Dublin.

Trinity college was bustling with students.
As we continued our tour around Dublin, we saw so many interesting buildings and statues.  As part of the upgrading and redesigning works of O'Connell Street at the beginning of the millennium, this stainless steel Spire was designed to replace Nelson's Pillar which was destroyed in an IRA bombing. Poking fun (craic), usually at themselves, is a particularly Irish thing to do. Hence, they have igven the statue many nicknames, including: the Erection at the Intersection, the Stiffy at the Liffey, and the Stiletto in the Ghetto. 


We've even run into a few leprechauns during our visit, including this (very tall) one Bryan made friends with:



There are plenty more pictures, and lots more to see, but we are headed back for more craic!

Laura and Bryan

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