{"id":3750,"date":"2012-03-17T15:17:57","date_gmt":"2012-03-17T21:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/?p=3750"},"modified":"2015-10-26T09:09:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T15:09:04","slug":"drifted-appetite-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/?p=3750","title":{"rendered":"“Drifted” Appetite: Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"rss\"<\/a>

Happy St. Patrick’s Day weekend everyone.\u00a0 Let’s go to Ireland!\u00a0 Last spring, my mom, my brother, and I went on our first trip to Ireland.\u00a0 Mostly we stayed and explored Dublin and its surrounding area.\u00a0 For a couple of days we drove up the east coast and ended up exploring some parts of Northern Ireland as well.\u00a0 The main impression I have of Ireland was that the everyone we met was extremely nice.\u00a0 (Maybe even nicer than my family.)\u00a0 The first thing we did when we arrived was to find the kitchiest pub, listen to some music, eat oysters, and drink some Guinness.\u00a0 It is true that the best Guinness is in Ireland.\u00a0 Guinness in America just doesn’t compare.\u00a0 The same goes for it’s oysters.\u00a0 They were the fattest, most succulent, and cleanest tasting oysters I’ve ever had.<\/p>\n

\u00a0When In Ireland<\/em><\/p>\n

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I highly agree to the statement that the best way to get to know a place is by tasting its food (with music being the second criteria).\u00a0 A visit to the Dublin Farmer’s Market was at the top of our list.\u00a0 I loved seeing a pile of salmon heads and roe in open air, prepared rabbits and pig’s heads from a butcher’s window, and a lot of stands teaming with fruits and vegetables.\u00a0 The city is pedestrian friendly.\u00a0 We shopped a bit around Grafton St.<\/a>\u00a0and walked around Trinity College.\u00a0 I’m not a big fan of long lines so we did not go see the Book of Kells<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Dublin Market<\/em><\/p>\n

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What was interesting during that week was that the city was anticipating Queen Elizabeth’s first visit to Ireland.\u00a0 Not since her grandfather exactly 100 years ago at the time had ever set foot in the country.\u00a0 I’m not going to get into Ireland and England’s bloody history but the queen’s visit\u00a0was a step toward building\u00a0better relations between the neighboring countries.<\/p>\n

Now on to the fun stuff.\u00a0 We had Bewley’s<\/a> coffee, porridge with honey and sultanas, milky tea, Irish breakfasts, meat pies, colcannon,\u00a0strawberry lumpy bumpy, fish and chips with curry sauce,\u00a0Durrus <\/a>cheese and charcuterie from Sheridan’s Cheesemongers<\/a>, Guinness, pear cider, oysters, mussels, more oysters, and more Guinness.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Eating Ireland<\/em><\/p>\n

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The pictures below is proof that I do other things besides eating on trips.\u00a0 I saw the tallest waterfall in Ireland, went to the Powerscourt Estate<\/a>, visited Newgrange<\/a>, walked across a rope bridge<\/a> suspended over the ocean (that’s my mom in the picture below screaming while crossing the bridge), saw the Giant’s Causeway<\/a>, and\u00a0saw a little bit of Belfast.\u00a0 So you see, after all that walking and traveling around, it’s ok that I ate so much.\u00a0 Have a great day all \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

\u00a0Places to Go<\/em>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day weekend everyone.\u00a0 Let’s go to Ireland!\u00a0 Last spring, my mom, my brother, and I went on our first trip to Ireland.\u00a0 Mostly we stayed and explored Dublin and its surrounding area.\u00a0 For a couple of days we drove up the east coast and ended up exploring some parts of Northern Ireland […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drifted-appetite","category-if-youre-ever-in","has-featured-image"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3750"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5879,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions\/5879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}