Yes! Another of Brent’s life dreams achieved. Along with watching the England team play one of his life’s dreams was to make it to Ireland. Done and done. We arrived at Dublin Airport and nearly needed to carry Brent’s Mom off the plane. Calling her a “bad flyer” doesn’t even begin to cover the territory. She managed the flight reasonably well, but took a few more pills than the 50 minute flight required. She was in a drug induced haze for most of our first day. Days later she had no recollection of where we ate dinner our first night in Dublin!We spent two days in Dublin and managed to make it to most of the big highlights. It was really fascinating to see the differences between Dublin and some of the other cities we’ve now been to such as Edinburgh and London. You can tell the Irish have had a hard life. Yet there is a warmth about Dublin that cannot be denied. It feels like your favourite drunken uncle who tells the most funny and interesting stories. Brent probably could have spent another whole week there touring around all the James Joyce sights, but we had to leave him with some reasons to return.
Trinity College
Brent & James Joyce
