Visit to Dublin - July 2005

Continuing the "city break" theme of the year - the next trip was to Dublin, for just three nights, with our friend Chris.

The "Monument of Light", a hideous new steel needle poking into the sky in the middle of O'Connel Street. Bring back the "Floozy in the jacuzzi"!		Looking east along the Liffey, from the south bank near the Four Courts
The Custom House, built in 1791		In the courtyard of Trinity College
The interior of Café en Seine, on Dawson Street - a huge place, good for lunch; we didn't go there in the evenings		The "fag on the crag" - statue of Oscar Wilde in the corner of St Stephen's Green park
The Grand Canal, towards the end near the Grand Canal dock		The southern extension of the Grand Canal dock, set out as a marina but a bit short of boats as yet
The Waterways Visitor Centre on the Grand Canal dock		A "Viking Splash Tour" vehicle in the main part of the Grand Canal dock; there were sailing dinghys as well
The south bank of the Liffey where there is a lot of new development		Cranes and new buildings on the south bank of the Liffey
A new pedestrian bridge near George's dock		The Famine sculpture on Custom House Quay

The images are all from the first two days, when the weather was lovely - it poured with rain for the second two days, and we spent a lot of time sitting in Café en Seine!