Today was a "down" day. We were scheduled to take a tour of Dublin in a bus. I (as well as most other people) thought that we would be riding on a local sightseeing bus and be able to get off/on the bus at various locations. Well, nope.. We were wrong. We rode on the bus that we have for the week with a local tour guide on the bus. We would not be able to get off/on the bus. We did get off at St Patrick Cathedral to look at the building from the outside.
Abby interpreting on the bus. There are two Deaf people on the bus and they took turns volunteering to interpret. That was nice of them.
We reloaded the bus and rode around Dublin. At the end of the tour, I found out that we could walk to St Patrick's Cathedral and then to the Guinness museum/factory. So Abby and I did that after grabbing some lunch.
Busy Grafton street. One of a few streets in Dublin with no automobile traffic.
Dublin houses have very colorful doors. When the British took control of Dublin, they ordered all doors to be painted black but people would have a hard time finding their homes so they painted he doors back to their color.
The interesting thing about St Patrick Cathedral is that it used to be a Catholic Church but became Protestant after the British took control of Ireland. Right now it's still a Protestant church but has only 50 members. In order to enter you have to pay 6€ to keep the church running. If there was no charge, the church would be closed.
I guess this is the royal pew
On the walk o we to Guinness, we saw a huge sea gull (?)..
Yeast from Arthur Guinness himself is stored in a safe similar to the one shown here, so that if supply runs low, they can produce more yeast in order not to have to stop production.
So THIS is what hops look like.
Guinness in small glasses
View of the factory from 7th floor
See the mountains/hills in the horizon..
Back in its heyday, Guinness had 12,000 employees but at this time they have 400 employees. Machinery took over the job. In the pat, people would work at Guinness from when they were old enough to work until they died, but nowadays that has changed.
Today was our last day in Dublin. I will miss this city, its friendliness and free wifi almost everywhere. Only two places during the last 3 days didn't have wifi-the train (LUAS) and the restaurant that Abby and I ate at for lunch today.
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