The exciting view from the hotel window
End of the Line 2: Bré to Blackrock, County Dublin, Ireland - 1st November 2025
After a poke around Dún Laoghaire, Nosher and Isobel decide to visit the other end of the DART line, at Bré in County Wicklow. Unlike the previous trip to Howth, however, the weather takes a turn for the worse and ends up with horizontal rain and strong winds, so we hide out for a bit in a waffle bar on the seafront, and then a café in order to dry out a bit. That evening, the Loudies arrive from Blackrock North and we all head off to Zero Zero pizza on Patrick Street, then on the following day we're mostly hanging around in Blackrock until it's time to head home.
previous album: End of the Line 1: Dún Laoghaire to Howth, Ireland - 29th October 2025
A comedy cat has got its frizz on
Isobel waits for a coffee
Cool 1960s relief of St. Michael the Archangel
The concrete interior of St. Michael's
A modernist concrete font in St. Michael's
Isobel and Harry walk up to George's Street
Isobel on a bench, next to a lost shoe
A brightly-painted building on George's Street
Life on Monkstown Farm
Isobel braves the weather on Albert Walk
It's a lot wetter than it looks on the seafront
Looking down towards Bray Head
Isobel on the seafront at Bré
We end up in Gino's Gelato for a waffle
Isobel and the funky lights of Gino's
Bré seafront through a rainy window
Under a railway bridge: the only dry spot in Bré
Isobel under the railway bridge
We pile off the fancy train at Dún Laoghaire
The L25 bus in Dun Laoghaire
Isobel meets the boys off the bus from Monkstown
Fred and the gang in the hotel's lounge area
The other end of the grand hotel lounge
We head out into town
A very wet Upper George's Street
Upstairs at Zero Zero Pizza
Conversation in an Italian restaurant
The junction of George's Street and Marine Road
A cyclist in the hotel's back alley
Harry waits for our lift after checking out
We head out of the hotel
There's a cool infinite mirror thing in the lobby
Evelyn picks us up from the hotel
There's some major flooding around
Da Wheeze is on the laptop again
There's a queue of container ships at Dún Laoghaire
Another look over Dublin Bay
There's good Hallowe'en stuff on Idrone Terrace
More Hallowe'en decorations on Idrone Terrace
Evelyn in SuperValu
Fred roams around with a basket of Tayto
A Frankenstein dances with some children
More characters in the Blackrock Centre
Fred, Evelyn and Isobel on Main Street, Blackrock
The three naked statue people
Waiting for the bus on Monkstown Avenue
Bold street art in Dun Laoghaire
There's Christmas stuff out in Dunnes Stores
Fred in Papi Chulo Mexican
The view out of Papi Chulo
Contra jour on Marine Road
Some kids run off with a pallet lifter
There's an abandoned pallet in the street
The front doors of Blackrock Market
Blackrock Market painted on a roof
The top end of Main Street
The fancy 1905 façade of the Blackrock Library
The upgraded Frascati Centre
Someone's gone to town with the Halloween thing
Carved pumpkins on Oliver Plunkett Avenue
Da Wheeze checks some books out of the library
Nice iron railings
Evelyn's car on Idrone Terrace
Isobel takes a photo of a Banksy-esque painting
Evelyn considers the graffiti
Blackrock bandstand
Da Wheeze and Isobel outside Parlour Café
Harry's got his heaphones on again
An amusing quilted blanket in a shop
Street cabinet art
Da Gorls' emergency 'pumpkin'
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The exciting view from the hotel window
The exciting view from the hotel window
A comedy cat has got its frizz on
Isobel waits for a coffee
Cool 1960s relief of St. Michael the Archangel
The concrete interior of St. Michael's
A modernist concrete font in St. Michael's
Isobel and Harry walk up to George's Street
Isobel on a bench, next to a lost shoe
A brightly-painted building on George's Street
Life on Monkstown Farm
Isobel braves the weather on Albert Walk
It's a lot wetter than it looks on the seafront
Looking down towards Bray Head
Isobel on the seafront at Bré
We end up in Gino's Gelato for a waffle
Isobel and the funky lights of Gino's
Bré seafront through a rainy window
Under a railway bridge: the only dry spot in Bré
Isobel under the railway bridge
We pile off the fancy train at Dún Laoghaire
The L25 bus in Dun Laoghaire
Isobel meets the boys off the bus from Monkstown
Fred and the gang in the hotel's lounge area
The other end of the grand hotel lounge
We head out into town
A very wet Upper George's Street
Upstairs at Zero Zero Pizza
Conversation in an Italian restaurant
The junction of George's Street and Marine Road
A cyclist in the hotel's back alley
Harry waits for our lift after checking out
We head out of the hotel
There's a cool infinite mirror thing in the lobby
Evelyn picks us up from the hotel
There's some major flooding around
Da Wheeze is on the laptop again
There's a queue of container ships at Dún Laoghaire
Another look over Dublin Bay
There's good Hallowe'en stuff on Idrone Terrace
More Hallowe'en decorations on Idrone Terrace
Evelyn in SuperValu
Fred roams around with a basket of Tayto
A Frankenstein dances with some children
More characters in the Blackrock Centre
Fred, Evelyn and Isobel on Main Street, Blackrock
The three naked statue people
Waiting for the bus on Monkstown Avenue
Bold street art in Dun Laoghaire
There's Christmas stuff out in Dunnes Stores
Fred in Papi Chulo Mexican
The view out of Papi Chulo
Contra jour on Marine Road
Some kids run off with a pallet lifter
There's an abandoned pallet in the street
The front doors of Blackrock Market
Blackrock Market painted on a roof
The top end of Main Street
The fancy 1905 façade of the Blackrock Library
The upgraded Frascati Centre
Someone's gone to town with the Halloween thing
Carved pumpkins on Oliver Plunkett Avenue
Da Wheeze checks some books out of the library
Nice iron railings
Evelyn's car on Idrone Terrace
Isobel takes a photo of a Banksy-esque painting
Evelyn considers the graffiti
Blackrock bandstand
Da Wheeze and Isobel outside Parlour Café
Harry's got his heaphones on again
An amusing quilted blanket in a shop
Street cabinet art
Da Gorls' emergency 'pumpkin'