Europe 2007: Trip Summary
Back around October, Mike decided it was time for another trip to Europe. Our focus this time was on Dublin, Ireland. On our last trip, we only went to Western Ireland to explore the area Mike's family came from but this time we wanted to see Dublin and scope out what it might be like to live there.
You can read more detailed reports of each day by clicking on that date but here is a rough idea of what we saw and did on our trip:
- Mike's birthday
- flight from RDU to London Gatwick (depart 7pm, arrive 7am)
- flight from London to Dublin
- dinner at Madigan's Pub
- Roxford Lodge in Ballsbridge
- Railtours Ireland to Galway, Aillwee Cave, Doolin and the Cliffs of Moher
- train to Galway
- Doolin for lunch at Gus O'Connor's Pub
- Cliffs of Moher (heavy fog)
- Aillwee Cave
- hop on/off bus tour
- Kilmainham Gaol (jail)
- General Post Office, site of the Proclamation of the Irish republic
- Guinness Storehouse
- musical pub crawl
- Trinity College
- Book of Kells
- Grafton Street
- St. Stephen's Green
- Simon and Emily at the Google IE office
- Christ Church Cathedral
- Dublinia exhibition
- St. Patrick's Cathedral
- dinner at Ouzo's Bistro
- National Museum of Ireland (Archeology & History)
- flight from Dublin back to London
- Consortia restaurant at hotel for dinner
- tour to Warwick Castle, Cotswolds, Stratford-upon-Avon, and Oxford
- Warwick Castle
- Stratford-upon-Avon
- Shakespeare's birthplace
- the Cotswolds
- Oxford University
- Hereford Arms pub for dinner
- breakfast at Vingt-Quatre
- St. Paul's Cathedral
- Cabinet War Rooms
- British Museum
- Black Lion Pub for dinner
- flight from London left 12:55pm, arrived Raleigh 4pm and home by 5pm
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