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Westbourne Hotel Bray

Quinsboro Road Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland

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A view of the Irish Sea!

A travel blog entry by franceandbeyond

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Per the suggestion of our very kind and friendly waiter, we decided to take the DART (Irish version of the El) south to a seaside town called Bray. The instant my eyes saw the water, I fell in LOVE. It was quite a chilly day but, we managed to spend a good hour and a half trekking on the beach, searching for rocks and shells before we eventually found food.

By this point we were quite hungry and we found ourselves a ...

It's Always When I Think I Know Where I Am Going

A travel blog entry by breimer

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OK so just to review, when I get lost in Ireland isn't Gerard Butler supposed to find me? I mean that's definitely how it happened in P.S. I Love You. I know. I researched how to meet Gerard Butler before coming over!

Monday morning I woke up to my phone alarm. Rachel had to leave about an hour earlier than I did because she had to get to the train station and get a ride back to her town. I just needed to hop on a Dart back to Donaghmede and then it was ...

The Greatest Orientation of all time!!!

A travel blog entry by anna-may

... thought to have been written around 800 AD in a monastery in Scotland. The exhibition illustrated the shaky history of the Book of Kells- it was stolen many times before coming to Trinity where it found a safe home. It also showed the calfskin and ink that was used- it is just amazing how hard it used to be to transfer knowledge and produce works of art compared to today. Anyways it was a very neat experience to see the Book of Kells up close ...

Luck of the irish

A travel blog entry by leon323

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... a long visit to the Dublin Castle, including the Beatty library I also learned about the Vikings visit here then the Celts (pronounced like a "K" not like Celtics), and the Huguenots. I also learned that it was in 1922, that most of Ireland achieved its' status as a republic and that there have only been 9 presidents since then (serving 14 year maximum terms). I saw the Waterford Crystal and carpets designed by the same folks that did the White ...

Dublin - Day 2

A travel blog entry by littleengine

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... it's really a small sacrifice once you discover the magical, mystical wonder that is the power shower hidden in that small stand-up cubicle. Ahhhhhhh. Heaven.

Third off, the breakfast. Breakfast is included with this hotel, which makes it a really, really good deal. The breakfast isn't anything fancy, but this morning we had our fill of fruit salad, cereal, milk, juice and whatever combination of eggs, sausage/bacon, tomato/beans, toast that ...