Another call from the wild so down to Dublin for a meeting with project architects for Tullamore Arts Centre.
Early start to catch the 8 am Enterprise using our Senior citizens passes. Unfortunately they don’t fund 1st Class so, in order to get breakfast had to cough up £18 for the privilege of comfy seats, orange juice, papers and waiter service.
The Enterprise gets a lot of flak but the one thing they do pretty well is breakfast, so all in all a pretty stress free journey.
My destination was not far from the Jervis Centre which is a mere three stops on the Luas from Connolly Station. This provided somewhere for Josephine to pass away an hour or so whilst I pondered the intricacies of retractable seating with the architect.
We met up again and had the most amazing cream bun in Brambles cafe Good service as well!
Josephine had found an Italian bag (hand) shop but whilst trying to navigate back to it came across a hair salon so settled on a wash and blow dry to lift her spirits.
That done we found the bag shop and she added a smart little number to her collection.
Around the corner a very large gentleman sporting Celtic warrior garb disappeared behind his sandwich board at the sight of my camera. We walked over the Halfpenny Bridge and through Temple Bar to Grafton Street. There was the usual buzz, Hari Krishna’s, Leprechauns and the other usual suspects.
A trip to Dublin would not be complete without lunch in Pacino’s, a nice little Italian Bistro tucked round the corner in Suffolk Street, just at the bottom of Grafton Street. They have a great lunch menu and the meatballs and carbonara with gubben ham are at the top of my list. House white of the day was a Riesling and, at €5 a large glass was not to be missed. Usual excellent service.
We walked a little of it off past Trinity College,on to O’Connell Street and so back to Connolly and our train home.
A satisfying day!