Visit to Howth

Today, my friends Lena and Johanna (both from choir) and myself ventured on up to Howth, a fishing village north of Dublin.  We had decided that there were a lot of places still in the Dublin area that we needed to see, so we hopped on the DART train and headed up the coast. 

We lucked out with the weather.  While it was on the cold side, it was a sunny day, and we took advantage of that by walking around Howth for about 4 hours.  We walked along the sea wall between the harbor and the Irish Sea and up to the harbor lighthouse.

 After walking around the town and harbor for a while, we headed on up to the cliffs that rise over the area.

It was a bit of hike up to the cliffs, but it offered some great views and vistas of the town of Howth and of the Irish Sea.

Zoomed in view of the harbor and lighthouse from the cliffs

Islands in the Irish Sea

After we finished up the cliff walk, we headed back into town and had fish and chips for dinner from Beshoff's and we walked around the town a bit more.  In one area of the harbor, there is a fish store were people can buy fish to feed some seals that live in the area, so we went to see if we could get a glimpse of the seals.  Sure enough, there was a group of people throwing in fish to happily waiting seals, who would then tease the seagulls circling around them by holding the fish up for them, and then diving under the water when the birds got closer.  By this time, the sun was going down, the wind was picking up, and the temperature was dropping, so we caught the DART back into town.  While on the train, we made a list of the places that we wanted to visit this semester, so be on the lookout for posts soon.