Rob and I flew out of ABQ on Saturday, through Chicago, and landed in Dublin Sunday morning. We met Lucy, Whitney, and Courtney at the car rental place and it was a bit of a struggle to fit the luggage, but we did a little Tetris and got it sorted.
We drove to Howth, a suburb of Dublin, and did the cliff walk. It was a beautiful day. I wore the wrong shoes and the walk was longer than I thought it was going to be and I thrashed my feet (I have HORRIBLE feet and they are very picky about what I can wear.) which wasn't good . But it was a really pretty walk and you can rest when you are dead, right?
We shared some delicious fish and chips in the village.
We dropped our luggage at the apartment and did a quick tour of Dublin to see the post office (sight of a battle for Irelands freedom from the UK in the 1930's I believe) and found dinner on Temple Bar.
Dinner was delish.
The next day we drove to Belfast, with a stop at Newgrange, Brú na Bóinne, an ancient tomb complex. It was very cool. This is the river Boyne, I do belieive.
We hustled to Belfast checked into our fab airbnb, and ran to city hall for a Troubles tour, which was really really excellent.
This mural was painted last year after the reporter was killed in a riot.
Dinner that night was at Wagamama's and it wasn't great. So annoying to have mediocre food on vacation. Oh well.
