First Impressions of Dublin, Ireland

I have to say that I had no idea what to expect in Dublin, Ireland, for our Irish adventure, after arriving by a most enjoyable trip on the fast ferry overseas from Hollyhead, in Anglesea, Wales. I suppose I expected a very old city, complete with old buildings such as we saw in Chester and Liverpool, but that was not the case. From the Dublin ferry terminal to the Jury's Inn Hotel Custom House on the River Liffey, we saw a lot of 'modern' style light industry and low rise character less and certainly not old (!!) buildings which rather unsettled my 'romantic' notions of Ireland. It is not until after we had settled into our hotel and went to look for our associates at Captain America's Restaurant in Grafton Street, that we did find some older character buildings worth stopping to inspect. To us it seemed that the older buildings were mixed up with the newer ones and this was the character of the city. After meeting our travelling group and Captain America's where they seemed to stand out as the grand parents of most of the other clients, we strolled back to Jury's in via refreshing ourselves with a beer at the very traditionally Irish Lannigans Bar, named, we are sure, after the relative of one of our tourist party.