Dublin- Day Three

Dublin
Day Three
March 11, 2009 (Wednesday)

We had to be up early today because we had a 10am tour scheduled. So I think we were up at like 7:30. Today we took the tour of the Northern Coast and Malahide castle. The tour guide wasn’t as interesting today, but the scenery was pretty. The castle wasn’t too big, it reminded me of Castle Hoensbroek in the Netherlands by our house. The grounds of the castle were huge though, lots of grass, the dogs would have loved it! We took a short tour of the castle. It was interesting, it was owned by the Talbot family for hundreds of years, the last heir and person who lived there had just died about three weeks ago. After the tour we stopped and had some fish and chips that were pretty good.
Then we went and looked at the Christ Church Cathedral. It was a nice church, nothing to special about it, i think if you have seen one church you have seen them all. Most look alike here, with the exception of the Mary Magdalene church in Rome, I loved that church it was gorgeous! After that we went and had pastries at Queen of Tarts since it was on the way back to the hotel. We stopped at the hotel and dropped off the backpacks that we took on the bus tour. Then we went to Trinity College to explore. I think in a bit we are going to get dinner at an Irish pub that is in the Frommers book, we saw it this afternoon, it looks cool. It is bright yellow...so thats positive!
Back home in Germany! Long day, the flight was late. Weather in Germany is rainy, the weather in Ireland was much nicer!! Nice to be home though!