Howth to Dublin
It's taken a long time but today was the last leg into Dublin. After three weeks in busy American cities, I was very happy to be back on the almost deserted beaches of Ireland. This is on Bull Island just to the North of Dublin.
Colin and Brian contemplate going for a swim in the Liffey estuary, that's as far as it went.
People who have jobs should really be kept working and not allowed out in the big wide world.
Colin checks out a house, at Marino, were he used to live many years ago. A long time before that, in a house nearby, a boy spent the first seven years of his life ill in bed, survived to do a bit of writing and died almost unknown. Today, Bram Stoker is remembered throughout the world as the author of Dracula.
Another writer from the past, this is Samuel Beckett, waiting as usual, on the bridge named after him.
We were invited to meet the Dublin Lord Mayor at the Mansion House. He kindly gave us tea and told us of his passion to help the homeless people in the city - a humbling end to the six months fun that we all have enjoyed.
The end for now. It's been another great adventure, we will all remember the beauty of Ireland's East coast beaches and the friendliness of everybody we met along the way, from rural folk offering us cups to tea to being entertained by the Lord Mayor of Dublin.
* Watch this space for the next stage: Dublin - Greystones.
For my Northern Ireland coast run blog, see:
http://coastrun2013.blogspot.co.uk/
It's taken a long time but today was the last leg into Dublin. After three weeks in busy American cities, I was very happy to be back on the almost deserted beaches of Ireland. This is on Bull Island just to the North of Dublin. 
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