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Saturday, May 13, 2023 – Dublin, Ireland
We are at anchor this morning outside of Dun Laoghaire which is southwest of Dublin. Dun Laoghaire is pronounced “dun leery”. Dun means “fort” in Irish. Not long after dropping anchor, the fog rolled in and obscured just about everything. The tender boats have been launched and are ready to start transporting passengers just as soon as we get clearance from the harbor master.
We were scheduled for an early morning drive-around of Dublin. At 10:00 the cruise director came on (he’d been checking in about every ½ hour) and said you might as well go back to your staterooms. Still no clearance.
Finally, the fog lifted enough to get clearance. This clearance was given about 2.5 hours after the first tour was to commence. There are a few excursions today that are quite lengthy. For those, they are the first tender away. Only a few minutes later and our bus number is called. In less than 10 minutes, we are on the pier and find our bus waiting. Our tour today is the “included” and is a drive-around of Dublin. We thought we might just stay in Dublin for a while and get some lunch and additional sightseeing.
However, the route chosen for the drive around made us think that the area was much more spread out than what we wanted to tackle. We have really enjoyed what we’ve been seeing, therefore, maybe this needs to go the list of places we must return to.
We stayed on the bus and went back to Dun Laoghaire. We walked into the village to see what we could see and possibly find some lunch. Cute little town and we stumbled across a food truck selling white sausage in a bun with bacon, cheese, and crispy onion bits. The sausage is huge and extremely tasty. Splitting one made the perfect late lunch. The food truck was associated with a meat market that had a very nice looking selection of meats and sausages.
Last Tender was
supposed to be 4:30 p.m., but the ship was able to extend our time by a couple
of hours. We certainly don’t have far to go tonight. Just across the Irish Sea
to Holy Head, Wales. By 5:00, the fog was moving in again, but everybody got
back on board with no problems. As we were having dinner at the Chef’s Table on
Deck 1, we watched the last tender be hooked up and raised into its storage
position.
The Glamorgan Sausage is a vegetarian sausage that was quite tasty.
Fish and Chips was fairly common and we grew to enjoy the mushy peas.
Chantelle - with your comment on how ugly the cathedral is in Liverpool, I had to look it up. AGREED. The 1960’s were not known for their beautiful architecture. Brutalism was big back then - like the old Calgary Board of Education building, or the Hipocaterio (something like that) bank in Buenos Aires. Your pictures are stunning, as always! Thanks for posting all of them. So beautiful.
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