These are leftover pictures from Blarney yesterday....a fern kind of tree
A great shot of the Blarney house
And one more
We arrived at the Dublin Travelodge before noon. No picture. Too boring. But good access coming and going. We get on public transit and head to the city center where we transfer to the hop on hop off bus. It takes for ever! The city is so busy. Yesterday I read that Dublin was in the top 30 travel cities in the world....I am beginning to be quite cynical about the words 'beauty' and 'citiy' being used in one sentence.
No matter we make the best of the day. We get off the bus at
And do the tour. Sid participated in a demonstration on the skill of pouring a pint of Guiness
He was a natural!
Part of the tour artifacts ...the wooden kegs
On the tour we learned that the original Mr Guiness (Aurthur?) took over an existing brewery in about 1750...he signed a lease for the property for 9000 years...now that's forward thinking! The family is only about 250 years into the lease!
Also at that time the infant mortality rate was just 50 %. Well Mr Guiness and his wife had 21 children...they buried 11 of them....
We see that the Irish are a feisty group....for oh so many years....
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