Stack A Restaurant and The Vault

Saturday night of our last day in Dublin.

We took a nap at the hotel after a long windy morning and afternoon in the village of Howth along the coast of the North Sea. We took the tram from the hotel to the George's Dock station and went over to the Stack A Restaurant in the Vault under the Urban Brewery. We had a very nice dinner of Irish style tapas.

While we were finishing up dinner lo and behold Eileen and Dan show up standing next to our table. Eileen tracked us down via a Facebook post I had made about having dinner in this restaurant and she showed up. Apparently they had moved to a different airbnb nearby.

Then we all went upstairs and hung out at the brewery for an hour or so. I had a Barrel Aged Sour by Urban Brewery and then an Elderflower Saison by Urban Brewery. Becky had a couple of pilsners.

Eileen and Dan were telling us about their plans for traveling around Ireland. The others in their group had scattered to different places with different travel plans. Then they told us the scary story of Dan losing his passport the previous night at the Temple Bar. He had it in his back pocket and then it was gone. We were shocked. Now they had to go to the US embassy and apply for a new replacement passport and they had to stay in Ireland until he received it. Eileen had been talking about maybe meeting us in Scotland after they had seen more of Ireland but that was off the table. It would take a while to get the passport and they couldn't leave the country.

We were also surprised about the looseness of Eileen's travel plans. They were making everything up as they went along. That was so different from our meticulous online planning and doing our hotels and travel through Monograms. I guess there might me something to be said about the advantage of some flexibility but not for overseas travel for us.

We had a very busy day and were exhausted. We were going to the airport in the morning and heading off to London so we said our goodbyes, got on the tram and went back to the hotel to get some sleep.

The hotel staff had been working on getting ready for a party with Bono to celebrate an Irish football game that was being played on Sunday. We were glad to be missing that scene.