Saturday, December 13, 2025

Breakfast at the hotel

We will begin our walking tour of Dublin as follows after breakfast.  

Grafton Hotel -> Molly Malone Statue -> Parliament House -> Oscar Wilde Memorial -> Trinity College -> O'Connell Street -> Ha' Penny Bridge -> Temple Bar-> Four Courts -> St Michan.

We then took a taxi to Guiness Storehouse and ended our day with dinner at Chequer Lane by Jamie Oliver.



Full Irish Breakfast 
Full English does not have white pudding and soda bread









Oatmeal porridge




Friday, December 12, 2025

Davy Byrne's

We saw this gastropub while we were walking towards our hotel and decided to eat here.




My first Guiness in Ireland
It was so good











Beer Battered Hake



Shepherd's Pie



Thursday, December 11, 2025

Chester Beatty

This museum has been described by Lonely Planet as ‘not just the best museum in Ireland but one of the best in Europe’. It seeks to promote the appreciation and understanding of world cultures with holdings of manuscripts, rare books, and other treasures from Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and Asia. There is no admission fee.














The picture depicts two events
Short Zacchaeus climbed a tree he can't see Jesus
Jesus arrived in Jerusalem and people spread their cloaks on the floor for him



My humble interpretation
Presentation of Jesus at the Temple in Jerusalem
Jesus was baptised



Greek text on papyrus AD c300



Another Greek tect on papyrus















A heavenly King









Emperor's robe



Chinese black and white painting





Indian miniature painting



We saw this form of painting for the first time at the National Museum of India





A Chinese cabinet














Dublin Castle

The castle was built in 1204 by King John of England. It served as the seat of the English and later british administration in ireland for over 700 years.










The Record Tower



The only surviving part of the medieval castle