Dublin
After arriving in Dublin, we called our hotel and asked for their shuttle van to pick us up. It was too early to check-in so we asked them to take care of our bags while we went downtown. It wasn’t running so they told us to take a taxi and we would be reimbursed. We were, minus 40 cents. Then we caught a bus to downtown. The bus stopped many times and we finally arrived downtown in about an hour. We bought a tour bus pass for the next day and walked around. We were not impressed by the popular Temple Bar area. There is supposed to be a book sale on Saturday afternoon, but we found only a few sellers and a mediocre selection of books. My wife commented that it looked like a Chinatown for the Irish. We walked around some more, bought a sandwich, and headed back to the hotel on the bus.