Arrived in Dublin yesterday after spending the day touring Belfast. Quite the troubled history in Belfast and there are many constant reminders. We took a taxi tour and the cab driver took us to different memorials and places where terrible things had happened. There is a wall that still stands that separates the Catholic and Protestant neighbourhoods of west Belfast. Visited a little IRA museum and walked down Sandy Row (the Protestant area). We were standing in a place, on the Protestant area and the cab driver said to us that 20 years ago he never would have stood on that same place and lived to tell about it. He can't understand why anyone would want to come and see any of Belfast and have someone explain it to them.
We spent today in Dublin. Walked down Temple Pub, Grafton Street, the Nat'l Museum and Trinity College. Tomorrow we are back to Dublin to check out the Castle, Guinness and a jail and anything else that we missed today!
Unfortunately, the blog won't load any of the pictures right now but I will try again later so stay tuned!