Claire's Travels: February 2007

Day trip to Brighton

It was time to feed the need to be beside the seaside & grab some sun so Nic & I took a bus down to Brighton early saturday morning. Spent the day chilling out around the pier, local shops, art gallery & museum, watching a fantastic sunset over the ocean and nice restaurant for dinner.

Rocks & pebbles - makes a bit of a difference to sand!

Fish, chips & mushy peas on the Brighton Pier!

Amusement park rides at the end of the pier

Of course the water was freezing!

Georgeous sunset over the ocean

Weekend in DUBLIN, IRELAND!

Worked half day on friday & went to dublin for the weekend - less than an hour flight from London! Turned out there was a big footy match on sun arvo Ireland v France so it was really busy with loads of french around. Stayed in a hotel about 10 mins bus ride out of town toward the airport, everywhere else was full! Loved Dublin - there was a great atmosphere, everyone was very friendly... managed to fit in a bit of sightseeing, some shopping, a bus tour of the city, a tour of the Guinness Storehouse and a reasonable amount of nightlife!

O'Connell Street - main shopping street

Monument of Light (60 metre knitting needle)

Monument of Peace - giant cross of water at top end of O'Connell St.

Tram!

River Liffey (looking upstream)

Trinity College

Dublin Castle

The Temple Bar - this was where I spent most of friday night!

Temple Bar area by night

Did a tour of the Guinness Storehouse!

Claimed a pint of the 'black stuff' at the top where they have a great 360 degree view of Dublin.

Looking up through the centre of the storehouse - 7 stories high.

Phoenix Park (seen from top of the city sightseeing tour bus)

More snow :)

Gotta love this stuff - it was really heavy one night during the week & kept snowing all morning - these photos are taken just after getting out of bed to find it not only had snowed heaps but was still snowing!

Soccer Australia v Denmark

Another live international soccer match in a few months! Nic & I went to see a friendly match between Australia & Denmark in London at QPR in Shepherd's Bush on Tue night after work. As usual a great atmosphere amongst a bunch of crazy aussies... unfortunately we lost 3-1 but it was a good game with a few very close shots at goal including one disallowed.