Grabbing a Pint with a Pic
Note: the formatting on this page is really odd for some reason--let's just say it's leprechauns. We met up in our musically-themed lobby to walk over to Jay Kay's for our last Dublin breakfast. The manager recognized us from our first visit and asked how our vacation was going--again, Dublin has a nice kinda-small town vibe. We told him how much we loved our breakfast the first time, so we wanted to return. (I was very partial to their shakshouka eggs and amazing fresh squeezed orange juice!) We had a full day ahead, starting at St. Patrick's Cathedral, the national cathedral of the Church of Ireland (which is somehow both Anglican and Catholic), which has roots going back to about 1190. The rough stones in the interior wall date to the cathedral's inception, when it was Roman Catholic. Over the centuries, it has changed denominations a number of times, and it also fell into considerable disrepair and was saved by several members of the Guinness family--so maybe ...