A Week in Monkstown, County Dublin, Ireland - 1st March 2011

Isobel has a work meeting for Qualcomm on East Point Business Park near Dublin Port, and so - as Nosher doesn't have much else to do at the moment on account of being made redundant - we all head over for the week. This mostly means hanging out with Fred during the day, although Evelyn takes Fred in to her creche for a few hours on three mornings. For some of the other free time, Nosher and Fred poke around Blackrock and the coast, and head in to Dublin on the train for a few hours. On the way over, our Ruinair 737 is broken as the bogs aren't working, so we all have to pile off and switch planes, which is a massive pain in the arse with the buggy and the metric tonne of toddler guff that has to be hauled around.

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Our broken Ruinair 737-800 at Stansted

Our broken Ruinair 737-800 at Stansted

Brooding skies looking to Dun Laoghaire

A dog walks on the water

The woman and her dog go separate ways

A woman on her mobile phone: 'I'M ON THE SEA'

Birds take to the air over Dublin Bay

Election posters in Sandymount

A CIE Class 141 loco rumbles across East Wall Road

Goods wagon graffiti

Isobel picks onions out of a hotdog for Fred

Fred gets a bit of sausage

Isobel and Fred on a bench

Fred and Isobel roam the food stalls in East Point

Fred looks around

Fred leans on a hedge

Roaming East Point business park

Bare Silver Birch trees

Fred and Evelyn go for a walk

Evelyn picks Fred up

Fred on a tree stump

Messing around on the grass

Fred gets the upside-down treatment with Evelyn

Fred waves a duster around

Fred on the platform at Blackrock DART station

Fred gets to say 'train coming' a lot

On the DART

The Dublin Customs House

A lone dude sits over the Liffey at Eden Quay

Ireland's Labour Party sign is upside-down

Temple Bar graffiti

Brightly-painted buildings in Temple Bar

Nosher and Fred do pancakes in Temple Bar

A view out of the café window

Urban decay, Temple Bar style

A dude on the corner of Price's Lane and Burgh Quay

The 'Heineken' Building

Crossing on Bachelor's Walk

A statue of O'Connell

Fred on an escalator

Fred on the DART again

The derelict Blackrock Baths, behind the station

Fred in the lift at the station

Louise and Fred mess about in the back garden

Louise reads Fred a story

Conway's bar in Blackrock

Noddy and Isobel

Bar life in Conway's

Noddy steps outside for a smoke

Noddy and a cloud of smoke

Conway's again

Blackrock Main Street

Cars on Main Street, Blackrock

A lit-up pharmacy

Eddie Rocket's diner in Blackrock

Noddy counts his change

Isobel pours a malt

Late-night snack in Eddie Rocket's

Jen Mac on the beach at Sandymount

Walking on the beach at Sandymount

Fred, Isobel and Jen stride along the Sandymount beach