I was born a ramblin man

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Dublin:

As promised, here are more pictures from St. Patrick's, Dublin Castle, and Temple Bar in Dublin.

St. Patrick's:

This is The Lady Plunket's seat. A.K.A Sister Seat Saver....

The Stained glass windows were awesome... so beautiful.

This was a very cool stairway... very cool.

Probably my favorite picture of all of them. Love this shot.

Dublin Castle:

This is on the way back toward Christ Church heading in the direction of Temple Bar area and down by the River Bridges.

It was getting dark so I had to put the pedal to the metal... But on my way I found this little gem. In Boone we have Hungry Howies.

But in Dublin they have.... Hungry Harry's.

These next pictures are some of my faves. This is The Temple Bar area and THE Temple Bar (or is it, I'm not sure). Dublin at night is awesome btw.

These are some shots of things I thought were interesting.

Anybody seen the Leprechaun say YEAH!

I will conclude this post with some random night shots of Dublin and begin the next post with all that is London.... Again, Dublin was great and I would love to come back here and well, Ireland really and explore so much more. One day, I will return.

This is picture this sweet little street band that was playing down in Temple Bar. They were really good. "Play that Funky Music White Boy"

Youtube Link to Dublin Street band

Lastly, this is the place I stayed in Dublin. It is the home of a good friend, Brendan Madden. He is a really awesome and creative guy. I'm blessed to have met him and to be able to hang out with him in Dublin. (http://www.brendanjoseph.com/)

Monday, March 28, 2011

Adventure in Dublin

Well hello Friends. 2 and a half weeks ago I stepped out on the biggest adventure of my life. Around December of last year while praying about my life and what was and wasn't happening, I for the first time in my life really heard the call of "Adventure". So I decided to just go. This is the account of that Adventure.

Day One & Two: Dublin
I've never flown before, in a plane or otherwise. So my first flight was from Charlotte to Philadelphia. I sat next to a guy named Sean. It was a great first flight. The Second leg of the flight was from Philly to Dublin, Ireland. This part was almost 10 hours long. I sat next to and older French couple who had extremely bad breath. They breathed a lot as they slept.. haha. No problems... I love flying.

This is what it looks like when you first fly into Dublin. Lovely place. Very clean and the I would say by far Dublin/Ireland was the most friendliest place I visited.

This is a little friend I found in the Natural History Museum. I like him a lot. It was cool because the museum was kept in the style of the late 1800's when it was opened. Really cool things in there.

Apparently this is where Bono lives... thats cool.

Myself and a friend that I stayed with in Dublin named Brendan went to this little place called Killaney. Victoria Hill is there and these following pictures are from there.

You get a great view of the City of Dublin from here.

These are really the only two pictures I have of this little town called Dalkey. It's a "suburb" of Dublin. I love this place. It was here that I tried a little bit of Heaven called a Battered Mars Bar.... Only those who have tasted know of it's power.

There were numerous Bars in Dublin and Guinness was everywhere. I'll have some more Bar Pictures I'll put up later.

This house is supposedly a point of inspiration for the design of the White House. I can kind of see it.

This is a little park... I really wish parks in the US were cool like this. I could spend hours in a sweet little place like this.

Tourist much?

This is the Dublin Tourism Center... pretty cool for a Tourist Center.

The Following are a collection of pictures from Christ Church, St. Patrick's Cathedral and some spots along the way. St. Patrick's was so amazingly beautiful.