Day 3 - The Real Tour Begins(Second Half)

Our ride("coach") where much time was spent and many skillful maneuvers made by our driver.

The Liffey river and staircases leading straight into it.  

Next we drove through Phoenix park, a massive park located in Dublin that covers 1760 acres, it’s the residence of various Ambassadors as well as the President of Ireland.
On this hill was where the Pope John Paul ll gave a speech in 1979, over a million people attended it. The streets of Dublin were completely empty that day according to stories.

The phoenix statue in the middle of the park.

The Guinness factory. This is not the last you’ll see of Guinness, it is massively popular here.

This is not traffic, it's how they parked cars. They left the cars in neutral and parking brakes off and people pushed them around as they needed to get into and out of spots.

It was extremely entertaining to watch.

Some random shots 

The two in blue are sisters in a family that creates their own folk music and plays at Scottish games here in the states, Mom and Robbie were quite surprised to see them playing in the streets of Dublin!

Trinity College is the next major stop, it’s a fairly large institution where a massive library of books is located. I really wish I had pictures of it, it was a huge hall filled bottom to top with incredibly old books but no photography was allowed and there were guards posted to ensure this. I probably could have snuck a few, but I have too much respect for places like that to do so.

After Trinity we headed back to the Hotel, which for the tour was the Hilton. It was quite a nice place to stay. As much as people complained about wanting authenticity I, for one, am happy to have my hot showers, modern TV, and well laid-out floor plans thank you.