Conrad Hotel Dublin

... Christ Church Cathedral to glance around. We jumped on a bus to take us to tour the Guinness Storehouse. The best part was that we got a complimentary pint of beer in the circular roof-top Gravity Bar. Hotel: Dublin Conrad: Earlsfort Terrace ...

Woke up in the Conrad Hotel in Dublin after a very solid sleep in a very comfortable bed. As it was the last day Susan and I would spend together for ages, we decided to treat ourselves to a lovely breakfast at Avoca. Despite living in Dublin for 9 ...

... it is. Those who've been to Dublin will know that in addition to the poetic merging of drinking holes accross generations, Dublin offers 'foreigner friendly' people, locals frothing at the mouth to give you their 2 cents worth, more Guinness than you can ...

... Sunday morning, but things quickly spiraled out of control (in a good way).  I got up nice and early to enjoy my free Conrad breakfast (normally $25) thanks to Gary Ehrbar's Hilton status.  Plus I wanted to make sure to see all that Dublin has ...

... comfortable and by the time we got back it was uncomfortable.  Well, this morning it was cold and rainy.  Exactly the Dublin weather, I was expecting.  But hoping against.  Oh, well.  We braved the weather and got a bit damp. We ...

... .  Then we walked along the Liffery to the Custom House and around some more.  Finally we finished up at Trinity College Dublin.  As you can tell there is a lot of walking but not many inside things. Oh, they are skinny here not because ...

Yoday was the train ride back fro Galway to Dublin.  It was a slow ride as there were delays on the way and an extra stop in Kildare.  Not quite sure why but we were not driving the train. Ah back in  a Hilton property tonight.  Here ...

... I think Kerry went to this pub as I wasn't there yet to remember this.  Kerry???  Our Hotel for the first two nights was Dublin Conrad: Earlsfort Terrace. This is one of the street near the hotel that was facing St. Stephens Green ...

... it was the opposite direction until we got to the M50. The we encountered, hmmm, perhaps 750,000 of the 1.8 million people who live in Dublin on the road. Ok maybe not that bad but it was traffic at its worst. We survived and made it back for a day well ...

... Troubadour, which was on the following night. We eventually found our way back to the CBD, and checked out the Conrad Treasury Casino, located in a beautiful former government building. However, wherever we went, we discovered that many, many more ...

... gets a kick out of peering thru the keyhole, this place had a really supberb Author's lounge where loads of famous writers (Josef Conrad, Somerset Maugham & Jeffrey Archer - mm not quite in the same league), and you can get served a fantastic tea set, ...

Our journey from Bundi to Tala (MP) involved a frantic rickshaw to the bus station followed by a fairly comfortable bus ride with Conrad from Bundi to Kota. We chatted about new-era football compared to the days of terracing and his life of travelling the ...