Today Marty and I toured the Guinness Storehouse and his cold is practically gone. At the very least, he is feeling better. Is the slogan true that, "Guinness is Good for you?" I learned today that Guinness has a variety of uses from a refreshing drink, an aphrodisiac, to a beneficial bath for newborn babies. In Ireland, Guinness is still made available to blood donors and stomach and intestinal post-operative patients. Maybe even to anemics, since Guinness is known to be high in iron content.
After drinking back our admission fee in the Gravity barthat crowns the brewery and overlooks the city we headed to the oldest pub in the city. The Brazen Head (est. 1198), recommended by my sister, prooved to be an excellent choice for another pint and some traditional Irish grub. Marty and I have been getting our fill of hearty Irish Stew lately! Last night we were priviledged to hear some traditional Irish music at O'Neills. The band was excellent and on certain particularly toe tapping tunes some little ole ladies got up and did some Riverdance and we got to sing along to some tunes (although I had no idea what the actual words were).
Tonight we're off to the Literary Pub Tour and hope to be educated and show are mad skills on some pub quizzes. Respect!
After drinking back our admission fee in the Gravity barthat crowns the brewery and overlooks the city we headed to the oldest pub in the city. The Brazen Head (est. 1198), recommended by my sister, prooved to be an excellent choice for another pint and some traditional Irish grub. Marty and I have been getting our fill of hearty Irish Stew lately! Last night we were priviledged to hear some traditional Irish music at O'Neills. The band was excellent and on certain particularly toe tapping tunes some little ole ladies got up and did some Riverdance and we got to sing along to some tunes (although I had no idea what the actual words were).
Tonight we're off to the Literary Pub Tour and hope to be educated and show are mad skills on some pub quizzes. Respect!
2 comments:
sounds like marty was in beer "heaven" glad it helped his cold??!!! sorry sometimes mothers can be a little skeptical. we took about a 3 hour tour around marco and other small islands today on my brother's beautiful boat soaking up the sun..this not working life he has is kind of nice..we probably could get used to it. love ya sc mum
Glad Marty is better and you are enjoying the best of the Old Sod!
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