Ireland

Dublin

Leinster

Pints, poets and prose

About Dublin

Dublin is a low Georgian city of brick terraces and brightly painted doors, built for talking and drinking and telling stories.

Trinity College guards the illuminated Book of Kells, Viking foundations lie under the streets, and literary ghosts-Joyce, Yeats, Beckett-are everywhere. The pub is the real institution, where a slow-poured Guinness arrives with live music and conversation from strangers.

It rains, it's grey, and none of that dents the warmth or the wit of the place.

Eat a sausagey coddle, drink a proper pint, and stay for the trad session that breaks out by the bar.

Get to Dublin

Round trip from Prague, any dates in November 2026.

Day trips from Dublin

  • Half day

    Howth

    ~30 min train

    A fishing village on a rocky headland at the end of the DART line: a cliff path loops past the lighthouse with gannets and seals below, and chowder waits back on the harbour.

  • Day trip

    Glendalough & Wicklow

    ~1 h 15 min car, ~1.5 h bus

    A 6th-century monastic city with its intact round tower, set between two dark lakes in a glacial valley of the Wicklow Mountains — moorland, deer and military-road viewpoints on the way down.

  • Long day

    Cliffs of Moher

    ~3 h car

    Ireland's most famous sight: eight kilometres of 200-metre Atlantic cliffs on the Clare coast, with puffins in early summer and the Aran Islands offshore. A long day, paired well with the lunar limestone of the Burren.

About Ireland

Green edges and pub music

Atlantic cliffs, stone-walled fields and weather that changes by the hour, with traditional music played for locals rather than for the room.

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