We haven't really been living up to our 'World Wide' moniker lately, with in the first four months of the year having traveled to Tunisia in January (okay that was pretty cool) and then back home to the States in April. In an effort to make up for the dearth of travel lately, we've got some trips lined up for the coming months - some officially scheduled, some scheduled only in our heads.
To kick it off, we took a quick jaunt to Dublin the weekend before last - arriving late Friday and leaving mid-day Sunday. We had been once before, which was nice because it meant we already had our bearings and didn't need to do the first-time tourist stuff. It was a decent enough weekend - sunny but chilly - which was better than it had been in London for the weeks leading up to it (mainly cloudy and chilly). We headed out to the Kilmainham Jail and took the tour there. Interesting mix of Dublin history - especially as the jail played a prominent role during both the potato famine & the 1916 uprising - and jail theory, the latter of which we are becoming knowledgeable in given our recent visit to the Eastern State Pen too.
Afterwards we wandered around looking for a cafe that either doesn't exist anymore or we had bad directions to, and in doing so passed by Trinity College green where a cricket match was on. So we pulled up a patch of grass and took in the game. This was the first time I've watched live cricket, and I have to say I didn't think the players were very good.
In the evenings we drank lots of Guinness (obv.) and tried to seek out some smaller, more local haunts. We had some luck and enjoyed time with the Dubliners - or, at the very least, near them. We don't have many pictures from this trip - just from the jail and the cricket match - but have a look, the link's at the right.
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