The Tourist
I have posted some new pictures in the Gallery this morning. They span a few different outings around Dublin.
The first few are from a trip I took out to Phoenix Park. Phoenix park is huge, 1752 acres. Needless to say I didn’t walk through the entire thing, but I did see their version of the “white house” , the US Embassy, a herd of wild Fallow deer, and where the zoo is located. We’ll go to the zoo sometime next week while Jacqueline is here.
The second set of pictures is from the Munches visit. They’re pretty self-explanatory.
The third clumping is from a trip we took Tuesday up to Croke Park. Croke is the home of the GAA (Gaelic Athletic Association) and what that basically means is that the only sports that are allowed to be played there are Gaelic. This would include: Hurling, Gaelic Football, Rounders, and Handball (although they only seem to do the first two there). The stadium is huge (82,300) and sells out for most events taking place there. Brandon loves stadiums so we took the tour and he took lots of pictures of the stadium.
For you history buffs, Croke Park was the site of the 1920 Bloody Sunday where British troops went into the stadium 15 minutes into a Gaelic Football match and just started shooting. 13 spectators and 1 player were killed. You can read the full story here.
As I type: listening to The Beastie Boys "Licensed To Ill"