Jeff and Sharon's Travel Blog

Google lies. After another fitful night’s semi-sleep and checking out of our dorm room, we followed Google’s directions to get…

We slept in today. The only other thing we wanted to see was Dublin Castle and it didn’t open until 9:45AM. After getting ready and figuring out the toasting mechanism on the toaster, we actually didn’t leave until about 10AM. Sharon had mapped out our route on her phone.

Dublin Castle is not a castle in the traditional sense. Rather it is more of a residence for entertaining dignitaries on state visits etc. We saw beautiful rooms including a state room with the Irish throne (with a sign saying “Don’t sit in this car” for obvious reasons.

There was also a room with portraits of the Irish presidents. Ireland has only been a republic since 1960something. There was little room for more portraits so I guess they’d need to move them to a bigger room(?)

There was a nice blue room, a sitting room, a dining

Today was a relatively easy day for me. We were able to sleep late after a night of tossing and…

I personally woke up early. I knew the alarm was set for 6:10AM, but I can’t stand to be woken up by an alarm. It startles me and I’m just not the same for a few minutes after that.

We got up and got ready. Afterwards we ate our usual breakfast in the shared kitchen area. I had the last two chocolate muffins while Sharon had cereal.

Sharon had mapped out our route on her phone the night before. The only problem was that I hadn’t charged her phone (forgot to plug it in). Our Pixel 2 phones charge fast and within the short amount of time that I figured out that the phone wasn’t ready vs. the time we left, the phone had charged 30% which is phenominal compared to my previous phones. Phone batteries have come a long way.

After a short walk we caught our bus a few blocks from the dormitory we are sta

Where to begin? Today has been very full and pretty wonderful. We woke up early this morning because we had…

I had trouble sleeping in the night. Our bed is probably a bit wider than a twin bed but not as wide as a full. Normally I’d guess it is made for 1 college student, not a married couple. Also initially our room was too hot and there was no air conditioning. Our only solace is opening up a window to let the cool air in.

There is a green night light which shines directly in my face during the night. So I got out my eyemask which I normally use on planes. i felt somewhat of a diva needing my beauty sleep, but in reality it was blocking an annoying light.

After getting ready we had breakfast – 2 chocolate muffins for me and some type of generic multigrain Cherrios for Sharon….which she said tasted nothing like Cheerios.

We were running a bit late for the bus to church so we had to book it. Fortunatel

Today was Sunday, so we visited with the church of Christ at Knocklyon, a suburb of Dublin. As far as…

I woke up early while Sharon was still sleeping. I got a shower before quietly waking Sharon up. Our B&B host, Yvonne had given us soda bread the day before. I had some bread with strawberry jelly on it.

Sharon said that I should go to St. Canice Cathedral to get some good photos of the inside of the church top of the round tower. She said that she was not up to walking so far.

St. Canice Cathedral is farthest along the medieval mile. I got to the end of the street and went up some seeps and there it was. This was the same church we tried to visit yesterday but there was a wedding being held there.

The inside of the church was much like the other churches we visited It had stained glass and crypts. One of the crypts was of a man born with no legs and arms but was still able to thrive and become

We slept in this morning, and I suggested that Jeff go up by himself to St. Canice’s to try again…