In the morning we took the bus back to Dublin, which was not particularly eventful. What was eventful was arriving at our hotel, which I’d booked somewhat last minute when we decided to switch around the order of our post-tour trip and go to Belfast a day early, leaving the pickings slimmer for hotel bookings. Of two possible options, this latter hotel “above two of Dublin’s hottest nightclubs” had seemed like a decent idea at the time, however as we got closer to the hotel and its already pulsating EDM rhythms.
In the afternoon we visited the National Museum of Ireland, including the Natural History Museum (appropriately teeming with children and also living up to its nickname of the dead zoo) and the more interesting Archaeology museum.
If the story of our hotel seems incomplete above, the late night update is that it seemed quiet when we went to bed around 11:00 pm, but then we were woken to the sound of screaming and swearing outside the window around 2:00, followed by the flashing through our blinds of red and blue signaling police lights. I suppose this is the norm for a hotel that includes ear plugs with the toiletries.