{"id":736,"date":"2013-11-14T00:50:23","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T00:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/?p=736"},"modified":"2013-12-09T01:51:39","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T01:51:39","slug":"dublin-ireland-11-14-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/?p=736","title":{"rendered":"Dublin, Ireland  11.14.2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Landing in Dublin was a bit of a shock &#8211; Spain and Morocco were sunny and dry but it&#8217;s very windy, rainy, and cold here. It&#8217;s snowing in Des Moines, so I won&#8217;t complain.<\/p>\n<p>We walked along the Liffey River and crossed the Ha&#8217;Penny Bridge, a famous pedestrian bridge over the river. We shopped and ate in Temple Bar, a neighborhood full of bars, shops, and restaurants just south of the river. It&#8217;s pretty touristy with lots of souvenir stores and bars with Irish dancing, but it has quirky shops and cobblestone streets.<\/p>\n<p>Christmas decorations were lit tonight on Grafton Street, a pedestrian mall with street performers.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_737\" style=\"width: 624px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Ireland2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-737\" class=\" wp-image-737 \" alt=\"River Liffey\" src=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Ireland2-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"614\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Ireland2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Ireland2-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-737\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">River Liffey<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_738\" style=\"width: 471px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Ireland5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-738\" class=\" wp-image-738 \" alt=\"Temple Bar neighborhood\" src=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Ireland5-768x1024.jpg\" width=\"461\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Ireland5-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Ireland5-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-738\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Temple Bar neighborhood<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_743\" style=\"width: 624px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Ireland9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-743\" class=\" wp-image-743 \" alt=\"The original Temple Bar\" src=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Ireland9-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"614\" height=\"461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Ireland9-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Ireland9-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-743\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The original Temple Bar<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_739\" style=\"width: 471px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Africa-Europe-327.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-739\" class=\" wp-image-739 \" alt=\"Grafton Street Christmas decorations\" src=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Africa-Europe-327-768x1024.jpg\" width=\"461\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Africa-Europe-327-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Africa-Europe-327-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-739\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grafton Street Christmas decorations<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_740\" style=\"width: 471px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Ireland17.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-740\" class=\" wp-image-740 \" alt=\"Grafton Street shopping\" src=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Ireland17-768x1024.jpg\" width=\"461\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Ireland17-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Ireland17-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-740\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grafton Street shopping<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Landing in Dublin was a bit of a shock &#8211; Spain and Morocco were sunny and dry but it&#8217;s very windy, rainy, and cold here. It&#8217;s snowing in Des Moines, so I won&#8217;t complain. We walked along the Liffey River and crossed the Ha&#8217;Penny Bridge, a famous pedestrian bridge over the river. We shopped and &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/?p=736\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bos_mb_destination":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":744,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}