Rainy Day in Dublin - a day for the cinema

Wow was it wet in Dublin yesterday. 

It started heavily raining from about 9am and continued to do so most of the day. Even with the rain, however, we went for our usual morning walk to Nick's Coffee.  We had a large umbrella which kept us dry on the short walk. While we were in Nick's we made plans to go to the cinema to see the Talking Heads Concert Movie "Stop making sense" at 5pm as it was so rainy.

Although we had been considering getting the bus to the Rathmines Omniplex, we caught a break when we set off walking to Rathmines at about 3.30pm as it had stopped raining briefly. 

When we got to cinema we realised we were far to early for the film, so we sauntered across the road to Rathmines Library and had a browse for a little while. It is such a pleasant library so it was a nice thing to do of a Saturday afternoon.

Very quickly the time for the movie came upon us and so after Ciaran bought a Coke Zero and popcorn combo meal, we headed upstairs to cinema no. 9 which is the little 22 seat screening room. 

It was a great experience to watch the movie in this intimate setting (we were in the back row) and it brought me right back to 2018 when we saw David Byrne live in his American Utopia tour 

The music was awesome and it felt like you were actually at the concert - a few times after some songs both Ciaran and I gave a spontaneous little quiet clap and I saw a guy do the same a few rows ahead. It is such a unique concert as the additions to the stage are made. Quite mad really - but somehow makes sense.....

All in all a perfect way to spend a rainy afternoon and we didn't even mind walking home in the rain either!