It was a day of Beer today as we were off to The Great British Beer Festival but first of all we had to do our washing. Most certainly one of the downsides when travelling is finding somewhere to do washing & then taking a few hours out of a day to actually get it done. The closest laundrette was about 10mins walk away & luckily they had quick machines so we were out of there in just over an hour ready to take the tube to West Kensington then walk up to O...

After a big day yesterday and checkout being generously not until noon we had a lazy morning before going for a walk to Grafton street & St Stephens Green and then returned to the hotel for our airport bus at 2.50. We thought we would be at the airport with lots of time on our hands for our 5.25 flight but by the time we lined up for the bag drop & then security we only had about 20mins to grab a late lunch before heading to the gate. We were flying with ...

Today was our big day in Dublin as we purchased the Dublin Card & tried to visit as many sites as possible. From the hotel we had to go all the way up O'Connell street to the tourist office to buy the card so our first stop was the Au Post Museum in the GPO building. It had some information about the 1916 uprising but it was mainly about the history of the post office so we didn't stay too long. Heading west we walked to the Jameson Distillery & had to wa...

Today was a day trip day & we were going to Kilkenny. We walked up to the tram line and took the tram to Heuston station for the 10.15 train. The journey took about 1hr 25 & the train had free wifi- fantastic! Once we arrived we wandered down the narrow curved street lined with pubs in every second shop to the River Nore where we had a view of the castle to our left & the Smithwicks/Kilkenny brewery on the right. We took a side pedestrian street if sh...

As we decided to have 4 nights in Dublin with maybe a day trip or two instead of hurtling around the country it was nice to not rush out of bed this morning. We decided to go on a 'free' (they work on tips alone) walking tour at 11 so grabbed a quick breakfast to go on the way to the meeting point. The tour was really informative & the guide quite a comedian so the stories told as we walked around Dublin castle, the cathedral, Trinity college & St Stephen...