General photography, throughout Spring, 2025
No commentary. Simply pretty scenes from a pretty city.
Feb25
Pretty views of Dublin in the Spring
Feb23
A bike ride through Phoenix Park
Thursday, 10-April-2025
What does one do when they need to escape the city of Dublin, but don’t quite have enough time to rent a car and actually escape? Or to take the 90min train ride out to Howth?
Well… if one is like me, and has a bike…
Then one can take a lovely afternoon bike ride through the largest enclosed public park in a European Capital!
Yep, lots of caveats to that “largest” marker… but you know what? It still makes for a very lovely bike ride. So I won’t complain.
Feb21
Ballysaggartmore Towers
Tuesday, 08-April-2025
Did you know that “ornamental castles” were a thing?
Today I learned – They’re built by rich people to show off – purely aesthetic, and intended as a cool architectural novelty for the super-influential of the 19th century.
Andrea and I, on our drive back toward Dublin from Crotty’s Lake, stopped in to see one of these “follies”, as they’re called here. An ornamental castle entryway, meant to evoke the “good old days” of knights and lords.
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I’ll be honest? They did pretty well. If I could afford to have these as my entryway, I totally would. No doubt.
Check out more info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballysaggartmore_Towers
