Dublin Bus sighteeing toursDublin Bus city tours are excellent value for money providing a 24hour hop-on, hop-off city tour for a very reasonable €15. I am a great fan of city bus tours anywhere, as they allow you do a quick recky to get your bearings, decide which attractions you really want to see, and then act as a free taxi. The taped commentary (I cant be doing with fiddly headphones me) gives just the right amount of background. interlaced with good ole Irish rebel songs to get you in the mood. Riding topside, weather permitting you will glide past the GPO in O’Connell Street scene of the 1916 rising gunbattle, which led to this unfortunate lady getting a bullet hole in the t....
Crossing O’Connell bridge, the only one in Europe that is wider then it is longer you will pass from the northside to the southside... It's insider stuff but basically there is great tongue-in-cheek rivalry between the two, northside working class poking fun at southside snobbery... But it is here that you will see magnificent Georgian buildings which house various museums, which are mostly FREE, Government Buildings, the Mansion House and St Stephens Green where every young Dubliner was brought to feed the ducks as a child....
Moving ‘swiftly’ on you will soon see St Patricks Cathedral. Jonathan Swift who wrote Gullivers Travels was the Dean here for many years and if you keep a beady eye out, you will see scenes from his epic tale on the wall plaques of Iveagh house, just a little further on in the medieval and Viking part of town. The smell of roasting barley will guide you to the Guinness brewery. Here you can sample a pint of the black stuff for FREE, with your admission ticket, making it the No 1 attraction in Dublin no surprises there?
But if you stay on the Dublin bus you will enjoy a whirlwind tour of the Pheonix Park, the largest in Europe and Aras an Uachtarain, home of our president Mrs Mary McEleese. Farmleigh house is another excellent FREE attraction which is open to the public when not being used for state occasions. And the Zoological gardens one of the oldest in the world, birthplace of the famous MGM lion in the opening credits, but revamped to modern standards of animal welfare. Yes ,they are still in cages, big cages.
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