Evelyn, Fred and Isobel near the Blackrock DART
The Dead Zoo, Dublin, Ireland - 17th February 2023
Isobel and Evelyn start off the day with a quick - in Isobel's case a very quick - swim in the sea near the DART station at Blackrock. After a compensatory stop for cake at Parlour Café on Blackrock high street, we get the Number 4 bus from Monkstown Farm into Dublin, after which we poke around Trinity College, wander up Grafton Street to St. Stephen's Green via the Lego Shop and then spend an hour in the Dead Zoo - Da Gorls' nickname for the Museum of Natural History. It's then time for pizza at Milano - the name of Pizza Express in Ireland - after which we walk back to the bus stop on Nassau Street, stopping on Grafton Street on the way to watch some buskers.
next album: The End of the Breffni, Blackrock, Dublin - 18th February 2023
previous album: Blackrock North and Newgrange, County Louth, Ireland - 16th February 2023
We cross over the rails on a graffiti bridge
A 29000 Class DMU at Blackrock station
We walk past the graffiti sea wall
Poolbeg generating station and the Winkies
Isobel and Evelyn head off for a swim
Looking down the coast towards Dun Laoghaire
Fred's wrapped up in Isobel's scarf
Fred stumps off along the rocks
Colourful graffiti lettering
Isobel and Evelyn have finished their swim
One of Evelyn's swimming chums heads into the sea
The back of the Wicked Wolf bar
The old Blackrock Post Office
Fred and Evelyn have a pastry at Parlour Café
Blackrock high street
The boys watch Free Guy on telly
Isobel and Evelyn in the kitchen
The boys have a quick game of chess
Evelyn and Fred on the wall by the bus stop
We hang around waiting for the bus
The cool kids at the back of the bus
Isobel looks around
The Blackrock Centre has changed a lot
The junction onto Strand Road is closed off
A fancy building on Mount Street Lower
Harry on the bus stairs
A herring gull does a dance for worms
Harry and Isobel stride around Trinity College
A statue of George Salmon, provost of Trinity
The gang on a busy Grafton Street
We discuss where to go next
The Balla Bán art gallery alley
There's a huge Lego Eiffel Tower in the Lego shop
Harry looks at more Lego
Fred roams around looking at stuff
Fred loads up a pick'n'mix Lego tub, for €19
The boys compare their purchases
The boys outside the Lego shop
The Celtic Jewellers on Grafton Street
A swan sits on the path in St. Stephen's Green
Da Wheeze hangs around in St. Stephen's Green
A Common Gull floats around on the pond
Evelyn and Isobel on a bridge
A hotdog fountain in the park
Crocii are out in the park
St. Stephen's shopping centre
A busker at the top of Grafton Street
A Viking Splash Tour 'duck'
The Huguenot cemetry from 1693
Fred and Louise
An empty building on Ely Place
The skeleton of a giant Irish deer
Harry and Isobel look at cases of dead stuff
Harry peers at some fossils
More specimen cases in the Dead Zoo
An eel which died trying to swallow a frog
Insect specimens in cases
Fred gets a close-up of a moth
Jamie and the children meet us on Clare Street
Harry and Louise wait on Clare Street
Graffiti on the wall of Merrion Close
Louise waits at a pedestrian crossing
The former Sweny chemist
We're in Milano on Dawson Street for pizza
Milano's kitchen
Fred's made a Thing out of his pick'n'mix Lego
Harry assembles his Ninjago Lego
Fred gives the giant pepper grinder a go
Life on Dawson Street
Isobel gets some flowers on Grafton Street
Buskers outside Brown Thomas on Grafton Street
Annalua gives a look of ennui
Crowds on Grafton Street
Some dancing occurs
The buskers on Grafton Street
We're on the bus, after a run down Nassau Street
The bus tips us out on Monkstown Farm
We enter the top of Oliver Plunkett Avenue
Nicholas and Harry play chess
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Evelyn, Fred and Isobel near the Blackrock DART
Evelyn, Fred and Isobel near the Blackrock DART
We cross over the rails on a graffiti bridge
A 29000 Class DMU at Blackrock station
We walk past the graffiti sea wall
Poolbeg generating station and the Winkies
Isobel and Evelyn head off for a swim
Looking down the coast towards Dun Laoghaire
Fred's wrapped up in Isobel's scarf
Fred stumps off along the rocks
Colourful graffiti lettering
Isobel and Evelyn have finished their swim
One of Evelyn's swimming chums heads into the sea
The back of the Wicked Wolf bar
The old Blackrock Post Office
Fred and Evelyn have a pastry at Parlour Café
Blackrock high street
The boys watch Free Guy on telly
Isobel and Evelyn in the kitchen
The boys have a quick game of chess
Evelyn and Fred on the wall by the bus stop
We hang around waiting for the bus
The cool kids at the back of the bus
Isobel looks around
The Blackrock Centre has changed a lot
The junction onto Strand Road is closed off
A fancy building on Mount Street Lower
Harry on the bus stairs
A herring gull does a dance for worms
Harry and Isobel stride around Trinity College
A statue of George Salmon, provost of Trinity
The gang on a busy Grafton Street
We discuss where to go next
The Balla Bán art gallery alley
There's a huge Lego Eiffel Tower in the Lego shop
Harry looks at more Lego
Fred roams around looking at stuff
Fred loads up a pick'n'mix Lego tub, for €19
The boys compare their purchases
The boys outside the Lego shop
The Celtic Jewellers on Grafton Street
A swan sits on the path in St. Stephen's Green
Da Wheeze hangs around in St. Stephen's Green
A Common Gull floats around on the pond
Evelyn and Isobel on a bridge
A hotdog fountain in the park
Crocii are out in the park
St. Stephen's shopping centre
A busker at the top of Grafton Street
A Viking Splash Tour 'duck'
The Huguenot cemetry from 1693
Fred and Louise
An empty building on Ely Place
The skeleton of a giant Irish deer
Harry and Isobel look at cases of dead stuff
Harry peers at some fossils
More specimen cases in the Dead Zoo
An eel which died trying to swallow a frog
Insect specimens in cases
Fred gets a close-up of a moth
Jamie and the children meet us on Clare Street
Harry and Louise wait on Clare Street
Graffiti on the wall of Merrion Close
Louise waits at a pedestrian crossing
The former Sweny chemist
We're in Milano on Dawson Street for pizza
Milano's kitchen
Fred's made a Thing out of his pick'n'mix Lego
Harry assembles his Ninjago Lego
Fred gives the giant pepper grinder a go
Life on Dawson Street
Isobel gets some flowers on Grafton Street
Buskers outside Brown Thomas on Grafton Street
Annalua gives a look of ennui
Crowds on Grafton Street
Some dancing occurs
The buskers on Grafton Street
We're on the bus, after a run down Nassau Street
The bus tips us out on Monkstown Farm
We enter the top of Oliver Plunkett Avenue
Nicholas and Harry play chess