Birthday Bliss
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| sunrise on my birthday over Dublin Bay |
What
a day. I would definitely recommend spending your birthday with good friends on
the outskirts of Dublin, Ireland (did miss my family though).
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| Sweet paperweight birthday gift from Pauline |
The sunrise was beautiful
and we had a spectacular Irish Spring (what was that commercial?) day that
bordered on being warm! J
I marvel that I’ve not
even craved coffee since leaving California.. but I do crave tea…. several
times a day!
No withdrawal.. no headache … just sweet anticipation of the next
pot (with milk of course)!
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| Scotch Broom in Ireland? It has thorns! |
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| View from Victoria Hill, and Enya's view of Dublin Bay |
We drove to Victoria
Hill which overlooks Dublin’s Bay with a 360 view. On the way up, we
drove past both Bono’s and Enya’s
homes.
Walking up the hill, there is lots of (what we call) “Scotch” broom with
thorns (I wondered if they called it “Irish” broom here… but no, just
“broom.”). Lots of walkers and lots of dogs.
I wondered about the poop laws
here and Pauline told me it is over a 100 Euro fine!
Then we went to a little
village/burg of Dublin called Dalkey. Fun shops! We found sausages
for the next day’s breakfast.
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| Did someone say "Soda Bread?" |
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| Fun visit to little village of Dalkey |
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| We'll be having these for tomorrow's breakfast! |
And we were off to a very old Georgian castle,
Powers Court, which has been made into a kind of Ghirardelli Square with shops
and grounds and gardens and restaurant. The food is very high quality and
fresh. I had an absolutely to die for fresh pea and mint soup, served with a
heavily-seeded brown soda bread!!!
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| Powers Court - a Georgian era palace filled with wonderful shops |
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| best lunch ever .. fresh pea and mint soup and multi-seeded soda bread! |
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| gourmet fast food |
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| the specialty item shelf (LOL) |
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$8.50 for a box of pancake mix anyone?
Do we even still call it "Aunt" Jemima? |
Pauline and David treated
us to pre-dinner treats and gave me a lovely (antique) Parian ware bread
platter. Then we were off to dinner at Avoca Handweaver’s Fern House
Restaurant. It was lovely… glass enclosed, tall ceilings with cutlery hanging
off the chandeliers. Good food – good friends – and good memories!
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| birthday dinner menu |
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| simply amazing |
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| and another birthday is put to bed .... |
Tomorrow we are off on our adventure driving down the
coast south to where we will live for the next 3 months. Hard to believe it’s
here!
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