Today, Laurel and I rode the bus to the town of Dun Laoghaire [dun leary]. Although the town is old, the shops are mainstream 21st century: Penneys, Burger King, and others like that serving mainstream fare for everyday living. Not a single tourist trap in the joint! We ate at Burger King and came back.
The Fitzpatrick Castle Hotel is a 10 minute walk (downhill) to the historic medieval town of Dalkey. In the last couple of days, I've made three hikes there to pick up a prescription, visit the castle and a craft fair going on in it, and to revisit the Dalkey Castle Heritage Center gift shop, where I bought my Irish sweater. The street is winding and narrow, as is the sidewalk; the houses all have names instead of numbers, and are painted in wonderful colors. It's a 20 minute walk (uphill) back to the hotel.
The Fitzpatrick Castle has a wonderful breakfast buffet. Here's a photo of the cereal bar - you hold your bowl under the cereal you want and pull the handle. Ditto for the milk. In addition, the buffet includes two kinds of eggs, several kinds of sausages and bacon (more like deli ham fried crisp), beans, fruit, muffins, Danish, and yogurt. Tomorrow, we're playing hookey from the conference and going to Dublin for a day of sightseeing.
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Welcome home. I expect to see more pictures. It rained twice while you were away, and I watered twice, so your plants should be fine.
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