Wexford and Dublin

Cross-country to Wexford by train.

Estuary seen through the rigging of one of the fishing vessels.

Bright corner of town with statue of local hurling champion.

Wexford Bridge, the longest in Ireland. We have seen longer ones in Scandinavia (!)

The river scenery up from Wexford was very beautiful, but this giraffe statue was a bit of a surprise!

Showers out to sea on the way up the coast.

This is Dublin, city of imagination.

An old gasometer re-invented.

Custom House and the Liffey bridges.

This Spire is 3 metres wide at the bottom right at a major city cross-roads.

It rises 120m and the top lights up like a candle at night. Simple, but so enormously effective.

This is the Temple Bar area, crowded with people and pubs, in about equal number.

The Ha'penny Bridge, no longer tolled.

An invitation to the cinema to see a "filum".

This is a small part of the Guinness enterprise, an independent power station.

Molly Malone's statue.

Much more evocative statues of the famine victims......

......and one of the emigrant ships they sailed away in.

The Tall Ships, and the swing bridge named for Samuel Beckett.

It takes a lot of crew to manage these ships.

With all the masts and rigging, it all looks very busy.

Last to arrive was the Lord Nelson with its two tugs. Actually the oldest ship was 1913 and the newest 2011.

Two hardened sailors!

One of the many Georgian streets.

Off to catch the ferry to UK now.