Street scenes from Dublin

Well boys and girls, I gotta say, I loooove Dublin. I've only been here a few hours, but the people have blown me away with their kindness, and the walk-ability of the place is wonderful.

I have a few photos that I'll post below. But first, let me tell you that I had the most delicious meal for dinner. YUM. I am so fat and happy right now.

I had been craving vegetables for the past few days since apparently the English are happy to live on meat, potatoes, bread and beer. Not a horrible idea, but I like a little more color.

So I found a fantastic Italian restaurant tonight that knocked my socks off. (I know, I know. Travel all the way to Ireland for Italian food.) It was called Carluccio's, and it was one of those places where you have only read through the appetizers, soups and salads and you are having to choose between like four delicious options. I never even turned to the pasta or the fish pages.

I had a small salad and a 1/2 order of the veggie antipasta which had the MOST amazing green beans, eggplant, roasted peppers with pesto, fresh mozzarella, marinated artichokes, sundried tomatoes and olives. SO GOOD. Then, for dessert, they had gelato. Like, real gelato. I asked for a scoop of coffee flavored ice cream, and the waiter informed me that they only serve 2 scoops, not 1, and I would need to choose my second flavor. MY KIND OF PLACE. So I had one scoop of coffee and one scoop of chocolate. It was so delicious.

And, all you wonderful friends of mine, this restaurant had all kinds of goodies that you could buy to take home (which I can't do, due to precious luggage space). They even had a COOKBOOK and other things that might make a good gift for me some day should they sell the stuff online (like right here). I'm just sayin'...

So here are the photos from the rest of my walking tonight. This first shot made me laugh. I guess having God watch over the church isn't enough. Check out that security camera.



Right around from that blue door was this corridor. The lights looked so red, I thought it was a nice contrast.



I don't even know what this building is, but I loved the light and the shapes. And how about those streetlamps?



This is a thai restaurant that I thought about having dinner in. But I opted just to shoot the nice lighting instead.



And this is where I had my fabulous meal. As I looked for their website a few minutes ago, I found that, sadly, this restaurant is a chain. I would still eat there in a heartbeat. Izzy's has mulitple locations, and that doesn't stop me! In fact, I wonder if Carluccio's is interested in a Minneapolis location...