I had the busiest and best weekend!
It started with a train ride directly from work in to Dublin City where I headed to Merrion Square Park to attend a Dublin Literary Award event. The winner of the award, Mark Crummey author of "The Adversary" was giving a public talk with a book signing after. Wow, what a great guy, a truly natural storyteller and I'm really looking forward to reading his award winning book. Nominations for books are submitted by libraries all over the world and if a translated book wins, the prize money gets split between the author and the translator which is interesting.
After this event it was time to meet Ciaran on the Luas on his way home from the airport where we planned to get home and cook dinner and have a chilled evening. Which is what we did!
The next day was where it got really busy!
The first thing we did was cycle in to town where Ciaran had an appointment to get his eyes tested in Specsavers on Sawson Street. Then it was a quick cycle home to Ranelagh (we cycled the great new bike lanes in the village) where Ciaran met a friend for coffee. A neighbour then dropped in a Rhubarb Tart for Ciaran (nice!) so he popped in to see her when he returned from coffee.
Next it was back in to the city, this time on the bus, where we headed to the IFI in Temple Bar to see the Eileen Grey 1027 film. It was a great atmosphere in Temple Bar and I really enjoyed walking through it to get to the cinema.
After the cinema we walked over the Liffey and headed to Capel Street to go to All Bar Chicken to get wings for a late lunch. These were great, so tasty and a good atmosphere in the restaurant - just good informal food.
The rain was really coming down at this point but we didn't mind so much because it was not too cold. And so it was another walk back to Grafton Street where we bought a gift for the birthday boy in Brown Thomas.
After out little shopping trip, it was on to another mode of transport when we caught the Luas home to Ranelagh and then had a little walk back to the house.
A change of clothes, brought us back a few decades, where we kitted ourselves out for a Seventies themed birthday party for Gerry's big day.
Well what a fun party, we had the best time. We were home by about 2am but we were too hyper to sleep so we chatted to probably about 3am.
Sunday I was up earlyish (about 8am) and we headed to Gerry's to give him his birthday present. Then it was back in to town where we hung out on Grafton Street for a bit before going to Bunsen for lunch before Ciaran caught the bus back to the airport.
And for me after Ciaran went to the airport, I went on the bus from O'Connell Street to Rathmines where I bought a cinema ticket to see the new Mission Impossible Movie and I settled in for a nice 3 hours of enjoying Tom Cruise in his latest (and I think last) Mission Impossible blockbuster.
Wow, what a great weekend. I crammed in so much and yet I wasn't one bit tired heading back to work on Monday, in fact I was invigorated by all that I got up to!
