Ireland Part 1 of 2

One of my favorite things about Dublin? The colored doors. On an average street everyone has a different colored door, and I love it!

One arriving in the morning, Jay had scouted a French restaurant where we could have breakfast. Jay enjoyed a delish crepe and I had a ‘melt in your mouth’ almond croissant. It was a splurge weekend before cutting out gluten and dairy for the time. And oh I did enjoyJ

We wandered around the city a bit, found a fun café/pub where they host live music, all sorts of historic architecture, great shopping (!), and we bumped into some fellow Stratfordians!! What are the chances right? Too much fun.

Note the clear blue skies… love it.

St. Patrick's Cathedral, there was a graduation event and so we were not able to get in, the outside was still astounding!

We found Tim Hortons (in a Spar shop), the coffee wasn't anywhere near Timmy's in Canada...but atleast they tried.

The grounds at Dublin University, everything you imagine an old University to be.

My hubby stylin' a hip hat.

And what is a trip to Ireland without visiting the Guinness storehouse? I actually have grown a taste for beer (gasp!), specifically the dark stout beers. I am currently staying away from Gluten though, so my new found taste for beer will be on hold for the time. Oh well, back to wine.

The MASSIVE barrels that they used to store the beer in.

Hand carved oak barrels for shipping the beer, they were a lot of work to make and they made thousands upon thousands of them.

Jay earned his Guinness certificate here.

Rewards of his labour, a perfectly poured pint.

View from the 7th floor of the Guinness storehouse, overlooking the city of Dublin.

This display is all the different bottles they have used over the years all over the world.

In the evening we made our way up the coast to Howth, a beautiful town that we would love to visit again some day, we were just in time to catch the sun setting.

I would love to go back to Ireland, but there are a few other places we have yet to see (by few I mean MANY). I will put together pictures of my romantic Ireland for our next blog. For those of you that are engaged…start dropping hints for a honeymoon locale.