A Pub's View of Dublin

One of the highlights of the trip, besides going to the Brownbread Mixtape on Wednesday night was the pub crawl through Dublin where we hit almost 8 pubs in one day. Yeah, I know- we were pretty impressed too. 

Here are a few shots from the pub crawling... yeah, that is the sun, we started in the middle of the day. 

 

 

Coming out of the pub was kind of like coming out of a movie theatre in the middle of the day, you know what I mean...way too bright. 

 

But not to worry we were back in another pub soon.

 

 After Neary's we headed to O'Neill's for a highlight in and of itself. Oh yeah, we had a carvery. If you have had one, then you know how amazing it can be, and if you haven't all I can say is, if you ever find yourself in Dublin, head to O'Neill's for lunch. It will be worth it.

 

I intended to take a photo of the plate full of food, but I am afraid it dissappeared too quickly and this is all I got...

Just an empty plate with some leftover mushy peas.

 We were lucky and got a pretty sweet window spot. The tourist office is right across the street so there is plenty of good watching from there- plus since the election was underway, there was plenty of excitement in the streets.

 

 Then we headed over to the 4th pub of the day, and probably the favorite, Grogan's.

It is known as an artist's pub and has some very serious locals. Maybe that is what we liked about it so much- plus it had some cool stained glass inside too that pretty much showed what the bar looked like...

 

What trip to a pub is complete without some Guinness 'staches? 

Maybe even cooler to note all the art behind them on the walls- it was everywhere and it was really interesting. 

 

 

After Grogan's, we stopped in at a place called, "The No Name Bar" which was very different from a typical Irish pub, it was more like a trendy cocktail bar- who doesn't love a little variety?

Not exactly stained glass, but still cool! Plus we were joined by Jessica's other half at this point- Kalle joined us for the next few places and dinner.

 

The to another Dublin favorite, The Long Hall. I didn't get any photos inside, but it is really a beautiful proper old Victorian bar.  It's is almost completely authentic.  It's also not really on the tourist map so see a lot of old regular drinkers in a bar like this.

Oddly enough, over pints at this bar, Katie and I discovered that one of my sister's good friends in Ireland actually lived on the same hall as us, in the same dorm one year at UNC. We were kind of shocked and couldn't believe how small the world really appears to be sometimes.

After The Long Hall we went to dinner and hit one more pub before heading home to crash after a long day of drinking. It was a fun way to see the Dublin....or at least the inside of a lot of different pubs in Dublin!