Going through my notes, I realized that I never finished up writing on our Ireland trip from this past summer. We spent the first few days on the west coast of Ireland, and stayed overnight in Westport. After a jaunt at a friend's wedding (first two photos) at a delicious Irish manor in the countryside, we took our little rental straight across to iconic Dublin. I absolutely adored the city- I'm not sure if I'm easily won over by the accents (Colin Farrell = yum), the spattering of run-down-but-still-endearing pubs with live music 23/7, the fact that as a tourist it's socially acceptable to have Guinness for breakfast (and lunch, and dinner), or just an overall combination of all these charming factors. One of the trip highlights was ordering the Pig's Head Carnitas from 777, a wonderfully contemporary Mexican resto-pub, the kind that only foodies know about because they do absolutely no advertising on the facade, the windows are frosted so there's no way to see the in-the-know patrons sipping on lime margaritas inside. Anyways, these carnitas- they bring you out the actual roasted pig's head to check out and take a Snapchat/Instagram photo of before they go to the back and mince it into unrecognizable strips. We loved it. Very THEATRICAL as Mindy Lahiri would say. I suppose the other highlight of our Dublin trip is when we LITERALLY almost missed our flight back to Italy because we got carried away at the Guinness Brewery. We had been there since the early hours of the morning and were still nursing the umpteenth glass at the very top "bar" (beautiful 360 degrees of glass and views of the city) when I noticed our flight was set to leave in an hour and a bit. I'm still a bit miffed about wasting those glorious pints, poor things got left to their own devices at that point. Sorry Guinness, I'm tearing up just thinking about it.
If you want to see photographs and read about the first part of our Ireland trip (I highly recommend it because the photos from the Wild Atlantic Way are exactly what you'd want them to look like, when you dream of Ireland, this is the dream...):
A Million Photos of Ireland's West Coast
A Trip from Italy to the Emerald Isle: Photographs from the Wild Atlantic Way
Westport is Ireland's Most Darling Town
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