Wednesday would be my favorite day when I look back on that trip nowadays. We started for a trip to Howth which can be easily reached by bus. We jumped of the bus at Howth Summit and started with the Cliff Walk. We headed North first until the road was blocked suddenly and we had to turn around a take the southern route. We had extremely good weather and the view from the cliffs was perfect. Due to my wish to get as near to the water as possible I sometimes could feel a hand grabbing me from behind and telling me I would get beaten up if I’d go any nearer to the edging and so I didn’t start to climb down at some parts. I am still quite sure it would have been possible. As always when I get sun and water at the same time I burned my skin and as there is absolutely no tree that would spend some shadow during that route we were quite thirsty and exhausted when we reached Howth (town). Here we visited Cafe Caira at East Pier where we had fish and chips. I have to admit this has been the one and only time I really loved this. The fish was directly out of the water and the chips were handcut, absolutely delicious.

We left Howth with the Dart (which pointed out to be a normal train). The Dart departs every 10 min from Howth to Dublin and is much faster than the bus. We ended up at Conolly station and I had again overestimated my abilities to find my way from there to O’Connell Bridge. We got help from a nice Dubliner again and so we finally reached Trinity College where I wanted to have a closer look this time. I must admit that I was some kind of envious when I walked through that College and compared it to my university. I guess it is really fun to study there. They have fantastic sports facilities and I had the impression that most of the students were sitting outside in the sun or playing tennis or rugby.

Perfect day for me with lot’s of sun, water and fresh air….