Please don't think that Dublin is all empty abandoned buildings. It's a vibrant and thriving city. On our first full day in Ireland, we visited an estate house turned shopping center and then the area around it. Powerscourt House was built between 1771 and 1774 for the 3rd Viscount of Powerscourt. The family lived in Powerscourt, Enniskerry, County Wicklow, but they would spend 'The Season' in Dublin. So the house was built for them to live and entertain during that time. Now it is a 'shopping court'.
Many elegant details are still in evidence.
There was a knit shop!
Our day's walking tour focused on food. We enjoyed sampling foods at various shops. Cheese. Bread. Desserts. One cafe even made me a delicious vegan cheese sandwich. Yum!
And she helped me finish all the desserts.
Are you bored yet? Come back and see All. The. Photos of random buildings in Dublin.
8 comments:
...it looks like you could eat your way through Dublin!
Definitely not bored :)
Loved that yummy food and your cute rabbit! I took a stuffed mouse on my cruise to Alaska. I wrote about it at my website. I will have to link that sometime. Enjoy your week!
Thanks for sharing this part of your trip! What a beautiful old building. I would love to travel to Ireland.
Not bored. Enjoyed all your details and what you saw and enjoyed eating, too. Slainte!
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On the one hand, it's good to see a beautiful building appreciated, its facade clean and not overgrown, visitors enjoying its lovely details. On the other hand, it feels a bit sad that commerce is the only way to keep it alive. At least the building didn't get razed.
You can show pictures of random buildings and copious foods a-ny-time, my friend.
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