Dublin & Keating's Bar

Sunday October 14, nearing the end of our trip and our last night in Ireland. We had come back to Dublin a day earlier hoping to have some time to see a few more sights but what with getting lost over and over again, we really had time only to pack, drop off the car and get something to eat. We were downtown on a Sunday and couldn't find much. So we ate at a diner with unremarkable food.

Ireland 2007--Keating's Bar

We then caught a taxi (turns out it was only a few blocks away) to Keating's Bar because my friend Will in Glasgow had said check it out. It turns out the be an old church that fell into disrepair. Eventually it was bought by a local restaruateur and restored, keeping both the history of the place preserved and opening an establishment that has more parishioners of food than anything else. The crypt in the basement (with tombs in the floor) is the wine bar. The large open space bathrooms are down there where you walk in and go right if you're a man and left if you're a woman. When you're at the sinks you can see men and women.

The main floor has a loong loval bar down the middle and the top floor, overlooking the main floor is the dining area. If we had known there'd be food we would have eaten there and had a better meal.

We had an early flight the next day so we caught a taxi back to the B&B and that was that. There are about two days left of pictures from Glasgow and then it will be back to regular writing.