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

Serving up the good stuff in Gravity Bar

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.

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

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

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

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

Here’s the brewing process for inquiring minds.

Hanging out in the Gravity bar with a 360 view of Dublin

Heading toward the Storehouse…even the approach is cool.

Our wonderfully weird waiter at JJ’s.

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.

Artichokes flower!!! Mind blown.

Christ Church Cathedral

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 Ha’penny Bridge over the Liffey River

Elmira, New York!

THE Temple Bar

The Spire on famed O’Connell Street

Courtyard of Trinity College

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

The bakeries were mouth watering.

A chill afternoon in the courtyard of Trinity College

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

A bird with tude and a rainbow

Yum!

John’s Lane Cathedral

Another view of the Ha’penny Bridge

Diego’s favorite shop of the day.

Inisheer taxi

Actual working water fountain

We were the only passengers

Heading into Doolin

The complex maze of stone fences double as property boundaries

Heading to our homestay

Lefty

One of the ferries

View from O’Brien’s Castle

Kinsale’s harbor

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

Trying not to ralph

standard travel pose

our “hike”

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Flowers make me think of my friend Heather.

Kinsale’s harbor

My little model…

Kinsale’s harbor

Our little red charriot

Darling Kinsale

Kilkenny

Kinsale’s harbor

From the road

Diego’s favorite shop of the day.

Irish mailboxes are cuter than our, y’all!

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

From the road

A cemetery in Kilkenny.

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

The bakeries were mouth watering.

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

Artichokes flower!!! Mind blown.

Darling Kinsale

Wicklow National Park — STUNNING!

So obedient!

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.

St. Mary’s Cathedral in Kilkenny

Kinsale’s harbor

Kilkenny by night

A smile in rainy Killarney

Glendalough

Adorable Kilkenny…

From the road