Travel to Ireland

Day 14 Dublin (244 Km.)

(in 12 Km.) Foxford: We pick up our daughter in the house where she has spent a week studying English and we travel to the capital of Ireland, before going to the airport, to take advantage of the time we have left to take a short walk through the center and do some shopping.

(in 221 Km.) Dublin: As we had visited Dublin recently, on this occasion we decided not to devote time and to do it to other places in the country.

We enter the city through Wolfe Tone Quay, next to the Liffey River, and see the beer tanks of the Guinness factory. We continue into the city until we reach a car park located next to Saint Stephen's Green, a public park located in the city center of Dublin right at one end of Grafton Street, one of the most important shopping streets of the Irish capital . A few meters away, in front of St Andrew's Church, we find the famous statue of Molly Malone, also known as Cockles and Mussels. Molly Malone is a popular song from Ireland that has become Dublin's unofficial anthem. The song tells the story of a beautiful fishmonger named Molly Malone who died young from a fever in the street. The girl went through the winding streets of the port area of ​​Dublin, pushing a hand carriage and proclaiming: "Cockles and mussels alive!" Typically she is represented as a saleswoman by day and a prostitute by night.

We finish our short visit to the courtyards of Trinity College, contemplating places such as its main door, Parliament square and its campanile, the sculpture "Sphere within a sphere" by Arnaldo Pomodoro or the door of his famous library where the Book of Kells is kept , his most famous book. In front of the Trinity we contemplate the building of the former headquarters of the Bank of Ireland.

(in 11 Km.) Dublin airport: We return the rental car and take the flight back home.