Trip to Dublin

The day started drizzly and after the latest breakfast of the holiday, at 9am, we stayed int our room until 11am then went downstairs and checked out. We left our two large bags at the hotel and then got a "hop-on-Hop-off" tour bus for a tour around the city. Not long after the tour started, the drizzle stopped and we drove around various sights in the city with the driver giving information on the locations and cracking the occasional joke "This is d'Olier Street, named after the guy who had invented ceiling lights Sean d'Olier - you may have also heard of his Italian relation Gond d'Olier..." After doing most of the tour (you could gate on or off any of the many tour buses which run every 10 minutes after paying for a single ticket of 15 Euros for a 24 hour period) where people were getting off at the Guinness Brewery and other places, we got off at "Dublinia" at Christ Church Cathedral (Church of Ireland) were we visited a "Dublin at the Time of the Vikings" exhibition and also the Cathedral. We then walked back via Moore Street Market (Fruit and Vegetable) and got back to the hotel. We had a coffee in the bar and after collecting our bags, we got a non-top bus for 6 Euros each to the airport.