Dublin: Home to Writers, Pubs and People with a Great Sense of Humor

Although we've enhanced our cultural experiences by living overseas, some things never change. Yep, that's Todd, peering down the chest of Molly Malone in Dublin, Ireland. We found out later that our intuition about this woman was right. She's known locally as "The Tart with the Cart." She's featured here with her famous wheelbarrow of cockles and mussels. The other statues here which the Irish have also humanized with irreverent nicknames are: James Joyce or "The Prick with the Stick"; Oscar Wilde or "The Fag on the Crag"'; the Spire or the "Rod up to God". We enjoyed our quick trip to Dublin and would highly recommend checking out the tourist website maintained by the city for anyone planning a visit. Here's a link: http://www.visitdublin.com. We took advantage of their free iPod downloads for walking tours of the city. Very cool! Todd was also able to score us tickets to the play, "Waiting for Godot", at the Gate Theatre. Which was a good balance to what we saw the night before, "Saturday Night Fever". By the end of the weekend, we were able to get our fill of high and low brow culture, historical touring and a few pints of Guinness. Cheers!