View from our room at the Ashling Hotel - The Anna Livia bronze monument
in Croppies Memorial Park.
Saturday (continued)
Our room was ready when we returned to the Ashling
Hotel. After originally booking our room, I contacted the hotel to
find out if our room had air conditioning. It did not, but we could upgrade
for 15 euros a night. That was the best decision I made when planning the
trip. They actually upgraded us to the largest room on our floor, a comfortable,
roomy King with a view of a pond and some architecture. The bathroom was
huge, the width of our room and had two sinks, bath tub and a large shower.
The room was quite comfortable and we liked other things
about the hotel, such as the ice machine on our floor of the hotel. It
is the first time we had seen an ice machine in Europe. They did discourage
getting too much ice. Only 16 ounce cups were provided, rather than ice
buckets, and there were signs telling us that an ice cube takes two ounces
of water.
We freshened up and had a couple of hours of down time
before supper, which we had at the hotel. Linda had lamb shank, while I
had a mixed grill of pork belly & gammon, beef & Guinness sausage,
free range egg, lamb cutlet, tomatoes, mushroom and relish. Really nothing
special.
Our room
This most of our bathroom, but a large walk in shower is behind me.
We went to the Temple Bar neighborhood where we
intended to participate in a Traditional Irish Musical Pub Crawl, but it
was sold out. So we just visited other pubs in the neighborhood on our
own. Many of them had live music and there were more musicians busking
on the streets. We first settled in to the 160 year old Temple Bar Pub
where a four piece band was playing. The large bar was packed, but we shared
a table with a man from Australia. Our second bar of the night was the
Bad Ass Cafe where a woman was playing fiddle & singing, along with
an accompanist on guitar.
That was enough for the first day and having had only
2 hours sleep on the plane.
Street performers in Temple Bar
The band in The Temple Bare
The area behind the bar where I bought the Bulmer's cider in the photo
at the top of this page.
A young woman performing in the Bad Ass Cafe
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