Shelbourne Dublin

... we walked into the Temple Bar area and Grafton Street.  After getting our bearings, we headed over to our hotel, the Shelbourne.  What a lovely place!  It also is the place where the Irish constitution was drafted in 1922.  It was ...

As Jonathan says, our stop in Dublin was more of a pit stop. We were only there for one full day but it was plenty of time to fulfill Jonathanīs must see list which included the Guinness Storehouse and the a pub crawl.  Since most of our ...

Disembark Dublin Shelbourne ...

~~A funny thing happened on the way to Dublin.  As I was typing my Barcelona update on the plane my computer kept shutting down in the middle of typing which was very frustrating.  After my best attempt to fix it (banging on it in anger) I ...

... - so I'm surprised the art gallery chose it.   After the gallery, we all went and had high tea in the Shelbourne hotel, which overlooks St Stephen's square. It cost EUR47, including Champaign, but it was worth it. I had this great ...

... top of the building, where we could see the entire city of Dublin, absolutely amazing! After the storehouse we went to have tea at the Shelbourne Hotel, which was so much fun! It's a really fancy, well to do hotel, and it's one of the things in the book ...

After 3 long and hard day of scribbling at work the scribe is back for duty. Enjoy the last blog on our Ireland trip.  My morning started very early with a visit to St Stephens Green, trying one last time to capture some of the early spring flowers ...

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... I'd already arrived at.  With tremendous relief that I'd survived both my wonky plane seat and the Dublin streets,  I entered the lobby of the Shelbourne Hotel. Surely now the nightmare would take a turn for the better... It did. The OnX crowd ...

Our route for the day: Clifden, Galway, Shannonbridge, Clonmacnoise and Dublin The weather was bound to catch up with us and it did.  I guess the previous 5 days' weather was to good to last, but rain is what we expected, and boy did we get some ...

... shop for a cup of coffee and a muffin for breakfast. It seemed like a good idea and it hit the spot.     Dublin is quite and interesting city, both from and architectural and a cultural point of view.  Even in Austin terms the number of ...

... around the city. Like most European cities I've been to, Dublin is an interesting mix of old and new, but unlike those cities Dublin is surprisingly clean.  Not sure if it is by design or just as a result of the rain.  If the weather clears for ...

... On most days we had only breakfast + one additional meal or split meals between us. One day we had afternoon tea at The Shelbourne, a beautiful old Georgian mansion that has been turned into a lovely hotel. In addition to food and beer, Dublin has a ...