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So, to bring you up to date on what we have been doing in Ireland.....
We checked into our hotel and we getting ready to go out to see the sights of Dublin when we heard this awful racket out side our window. We are on the 3rd floor. So we looked out and this is what we saw.

A Guinness truck was parked up the street. The lads were rolling about 10 barrels of Guinness at a time down the hill to the pub in the basement of our hotel. The first one was upright to control the others. They had to roll them about 150 feet.

We went for lunch at "The Queen of Tarts". We were seated at a table beside a display of Quebec maple syrup. Imagine - coming to Ireland to sample good old Canadian maple syrup.

That night we went on a musical pub crawl. We met at Gogerty's Pub for a bite to eat before the crawl and were seated next to this frightening fellow. Almost put me off my pint!! NOT!!

The pub crawl was quite interesting. It was led by two musicians - a woman and a man. Brenda played a concertina (small squeeze box) an a couple of different types of tin whistles. Des played guitar and bodhrán (small Irish hand held drum, I'm sure you've seen one). They talked about Irish musical history and the various instruments.
We visited 3 pubs and Brenda & Des played a few tunes at each while we sampled the local fare. We were informed that a true Irish pub does not serve food. Their purpose it to serve alcohol and provide a place for music. The food is for the tourists, who expect it. This is the second pub we visited. It is beside the Liffey River near the Ha'penny Bridge. Apparently, even thought there are several bridges across the river, this bridge had a toll of half penny when it originally opened.