Serving up the good stuff in Gravity Bar

Heading toward the Storehouse…even the approach is cool.

Here’s the brewing process for inquiring minds.

Heading up to the top floor to take in the views from Gravity Bar.

This is the water display — an ode to the importance of the water source, the Wicklow Mountains.

This is a more different piece of an enormous bronze sculpture that is part of the transportation display.

The building is full of little moments like this one. <3

One of their most recognizable ad campaigns.

The tasting room was full of white mist coming from several different barrels each representing different flavor notes in the Guinness. It was rad.

We also met Christian and Rose (love them) from California at the Guinness Storehouse. Here’s a blurry photo of us heading into the Storehouse together after I needed to inquire about Christian’s sweater, which proudly bears the image of a kitten. That is an awesome sweater.

Details were not spared in this building. This is a small piece of an enormous bronze sculpture that is part of the transportation display.

There was a huge wall of casks from the display about the coopers (cask makers).

The glass walls of the gravity bar are very cool and also a little unnerving.

Diego’s perfect pint

Our wonderfully weird waiter at JJ’s.

The Spire on famed O’Connell Street

Cool bronze casts of Viking artifacts set into sidewalk pavers throughout the city give a nod to the city’s Nordic roots.

Elmira, New York!

A bird with tude and a rainbow

Another view of the Ha’penny Bridge

Artichokes flower!!! Mind blown.

The Ha’penny Bridge over the Liffey River

Christ Church Cathedral

THE Temple Bar

Cool details abound in the city…this is the base of a street light. St. Patrick’s cathedral is peeking out in the background.

A chill afternoon in the courtyard of Trinity College

John’s Lane Cathedral

Diego’s favorite shop of the day.

Love locks on the Ha’penny Bridge. Fun fact, the city has to remove these from time to time due to the maintenance issues the little rust producers cause. The last removal weighed in at 300KG/661LBS!

The bakeries were mouth watering.

Yum!

We were the only passengers

View from O’Brien’s Castle

Kinsale’s harbor

Inisheer taxi

Actual working water fountain

Trying not to ralph

The complex maze of stone fences double as property boundaries

Lefty

Heading to our homestay

One of the ferries

I made a friend at dinner. Her name is Poppy.

Heading into Doolin

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our “hike”

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standard travel pose

So obedient!

Wicklow National Park — STUNNING!

St. Mary’s Cathedral in Kilkenny

Kinsale’s harbor

Darling Kinsale

Darling Kinsale

Our little red charriot

Artichokes flower!!! Mind blown.

From the road

Kinsale’s harbor

The bakeries were mouth watering.

Adorable Kilkenny…

Glendalough Monastic Settlement: A beautiful old monastery situated in Wicklow National Park.

My karate kid moment

Glendalough Monastic Settlement: A beautiful old monastery situated in Wicklow National Park.

Diego’s favorite shop of the day.

Kilkenny

A smile in rainy Killarney

Kilkenny by night

My little model…

A cemetery in Kilkenny.

Flowers make me think of my friend Heather.

From the road

Glendalough Monastic Settlement: A beautiful old monastery situated in Wicklow National Park.

Kinsale’s harbor

Glendalough

Cork’s English Market is like a farmer’s market on steroids. It has been around since 1788, it’s in the center of the city, and it’s chock full of family businesses. It is absolutely darling in every respect.

From the road

Kinsale’s harbor