Two penguins beyond the pale: Two Solitudes

The majority of the population of the Republic of Ireland live in Dublin. It is a chaotic city even on a Sunday - crowds of people, knots of traffic, litters of garbage, mixtures of buildings - historic and modern, and pubs everywhere. We did a hop-on, hop-off bus tour for an introduction and now have our two full days planned. We spent the evening walking along the Liffey and into the Temple region along with hundreds of others people (most at least three decades younger). It was such a change from the green glens, beautiful coastlines and colourful bog lands of our three weeks in the rest of the rest of Ireland.