I eventually nodded off and woke to a glorious day - and the buzz of city life. Something I don't hear very often.
Time to explore a Dublin - and the best way - open top, stop and go bus. Who needs cd's or radios when you having singing bus drivers.
We did an enormous amount of walking in between the hopping on and off the bus. The Liffey river was crisscrossed with many bridges making it easy to traverse the town on foot.
Some amazing paint jobs on doors and beautiful hanging flower pots gave the city a festive atmosphere.
and one thing you cannot do is take a trip to Dublin without spending some time going through the famous Guinness brewery.
The days were flying by and we had not seen half of what we wanted to see - but the time had come to move away from city life into a more rural environment. Bags packed and onto a bus for our journey to Belcarra Castlebar County Mayo. We had a connection to make in a remot village in the middle of nowhere and as luck would have it as we waited for our second stage transport the heavens opened. It had been beautiful sunshine every day - and according to the locals they hadn't had rain for six weeks!
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