Trip to Ireland 2007....

July 15th, 2007

The Burlington Hotel lobby in Dublin....all of our rooms and hotels were very nice.
Steven Green Park in the center of Dublin, very beautiful with lots of sculpted flower beds and ponds with ducks and rock gardens. It was a very peaceful and beautiful place to walk.

Ahhh, chocolate...

Yes, they still do break-dancing here.
A street in Dublin with a beautiful church in the background.
A typical house and grounds, all beautifully decorated in the old tradition
A post office box in Dublin........and me!

We left for Ireland today. We got to Atlanta at 6:30 from St. Louis and our flight to Dublin was delayed until 10 p.m.. We finally left on Delta flight 518 to fly across the Atlantic during the night. The 8 hours on the plane was brutal, especially with crying babies adding to the festivities.

I looked out the window about 2:00 a.m. (home time) and it was getting light already.
We finally landed in Dublin at 11:00 a.m. Ireland time. We were exhausted due to little sleep, but found our room at the Burlington Hotel and crashed for a few hours. So, now we are on Dublin time: We got up at 5:00 pm and took a walk downtown Dublin. The weather was beautiful and very cool. There was a kind of street carnival going on in the town square. We started walking toward the crowds of people and what do you think was the first song we heard in Ireland, filling the streets? “Who Let the Dogs out!”…(well, that was a surprise:-), no Molly Malone, or Irish eyes are smiling…..ha ha……..they still do break dancing there, and so there they were, some Irish break-dancers performing for the crowds (and begging for some euros).

Dublin is a mixture of modern life and "old world". It is a very exhilarating and busy place. I fell in love with it immediately and can't wait to see more.