A cruisey day hanging out and doing some shopping

 Today we chilled out for most of the morning and then decided to walk into town to have some lunch and do some shopping.......on the way we stopped to read about and think about the Famine and the memorial on the River Liffey -
 the very graphic & sad statues which represent the starving, & dying population of Ireland, as they try to reach Dublin Port on foot, to escape from Ireland, and avoid certain death in Ireland by starvation. The gaunt statues represent the starving & dying population of this terrible time of The Potato Famine, which lasted from 1845 – 1848.  The work is entitled “Famine”. It was presented to the People of Ireland by Norma Smurfit on 29th May 1997.  The memorial remembers both the victims of the Irish Potato Famine, and especially mentions their descendants who are noted on the monument as having worked so hard overseas, across the Atlantic Ocean, in the building of Canada.

We then headed off for a very yummy pub lunch before we hit the shops - fab bar, fab meals and great company.