Cindy’s been here for six days, and we’ve seen a tremendous number of new things. Thursday and Friday, Cindy and I biked all over Dublin. Each time, I planned to visit place that was familiar to me. Each time, Cindy asked that we explore more — mostly because she knew that we needed to take advantage of the sunny weather. And so, I went lots of new places, too.<\/p>\n
We were especially surprised by our adventure along the Great South Wall<\/a>. We could see that there was a trail leading toward the Poolbeg power station<\/a>, whose two smokestacks are the tallest Dublin landmarks. The trail was part of the Irishtown Nature Park<\/a> and went much further out<\/a> into the Bay than we expected. But the real surprise was the road that led even further<\/a>. We’d found the Great South Wall, and it looked inviting<\/a>.<\/p>\n It was bumpy. Very bumpy. The informational sign said that it was built without mortar, and my bouncing bike seat — not to mention bruised buttocks — confirmed that fact. But the view was spectacular, and although the wall was man-made, we felt like we were venturing into little-known territory. Cindy seemed exhilarated, and I hope it helped her feel like she has a special link to Dublin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cindy’s been here for six days, and we’ve seen a tremendous number of new things. Thursday and Friday, Cindy and I biked all over Dublin. Each time, I planned to visit place that was familiar to me. Each time, Cindy asked that we explore more — mostly because she knew that we needed to take […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,7,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bakkerbugle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}