CB1100 Monthly Photo Challenge

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Spechg….your picture brings back good memories. On our last trip to Ireland we spent 2-3 nights at an AirB&B about 1.5 miles west of the cemetery on Dublin Road. While the wife and kids went to see Dublin on one of those days I decided to walk to Howth Harbor on foot along the strand by the water. Walked right past the front of the cemetery in your picture. Beautiful, partly cloudy walk to the pier. Ate at one restaurant and had a pint and watched the trawlers unload their catch and employees from the restaurants walking over and selecting the seafood they wanted for their kitchens. Decided I would try the other restaurant and walked 50 feet and ordered only seafood appetizers and another pint. Nobody rushed me to move along. Spent about an hour there and then decided to move to a third restaurant out on the pier and had one more seafood appetizer, desert, coffee and possibly another pint. Was a great way to spend a few hours.

On the way back I called an Uber. Gentleman pulled up in a spotless black 7 series BMW. Said he was normally employed to bring the bankers/executives that lived in Howth into Dublin for work and decided to respond to my call on a lark. Made small talk and I mentioned I just ate some of the best seafood of my live on that pier. He responded with something like …if you can’t find good seafood in Howth, you can’t find it anywhere in Ireland.

Frulk,what a small world we live in! Glad you enjoyed your day out in Howth.Let me know when you're next coming over and I'll take you to some of the weirder parts of the city!