After breakfast it was luckily a nice sunny day and we again walked down O'Connell Street past Trinity College and had a coffee in Bewley's in Grafton street. We continued on via Merrion Square and reached the National Museum. We spent several hours there seeing the many interestinf exhibits of archaeological items including beautiful gold ornaments such as Torcs, etc.
In the evening we went to The Altringham Hotel next to the river which advertised Traditional Irish Music and Dancing with 3 Course Meal for 28.50 Euros each... We turned up just before 8pm as booked and as the band started setting up I thought this might not be very good as there were two guitars and an accordion but then there was a bass guitar! The band could play but it wasn't a typical "session"
type of playing. After playing several songs the singer/guitarist told lame jokes in between then spent ages mentioning various countries and getting anyone from the country to shout out. By now we had had enough and headed back towards the hotel but checked for any pubs really playing traditional music on the way down nearby streets, but didn't find any.
After breakfast it was luckily a nice sunny day and we again walked down O'Connell Street past Trinity College and had a coffee in Bewley's in Grafton street. We continued on via Merrion Square and reached the National Museum. We spent several hours there seeing the many interestinf exhibits of archaeological items including beautiful gold ornaments such as Torcs, etc.
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