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In Dublin, I visited different shopping centers namely Roches
store, Marks and Spencer, Tallaugh Centre, Saint Stephan 's Shopping Centre,
Brown Thomas Centre, Londis, McDowell etc. For the grossery I went to Dunnes
stores. These are the popular stores of Ireland. These stores have also the
chains in other cities and towns. 
I visited Saint Stephan's Green Park. It
is one of the biggest park in Europe. There is another park which is known as
Phoenix park. The park provides Dubliners with nearly three square miles of
beautiful parkland on the western edge of the city.It is full of flowers.
My stay in Ireland was in Drogheda. It is basically
known as town.It is a historical town with a beautiful river known as Boyne
River. There is a Boyne Valley which produces honey, one of the familiar and
pure honey in the world. Drogheda is an industrial townwith a population of
24,000.there is a famous river known as Boyne River near the site of the
fateful battle of 1690 in which James11 lost his chance to recover the English
Crown.This once medieval city was surrounded by a stone wall with ten gates.
An exhibition of
flowers is to be held every year in Drogheda. It is also known as the town of
flowers. It is decorated with the baskets hanging with full of flowers on the
both sides of the roads.There I have found a cat , that is just like a friend of
mine.You can see the picture of it .
Malahide, a small resort and is best known for its
castle.The spirit of the Talbot family , who recided here for 791 years,still
fills the place-not only with the portraits on the walls but even the color of
paint behind them, "Malahide orange",a tint found nowhere else.Much of the
National Portrait Collection, from the National Gallery in Dublin, is also on
show here.Wide spread lawns surround the castle,which was brought by the Dublin
County Council after the death of the last Lord talbot in 1975.I visited sea
side with my family and we collected the sea shells from the sea shore a lot and
it is actually the crystal of Ireland, according to my Papa.
I also visited National Wax Museum there.Grown-up as well as children will be enchanted by the exhibits centered around the heroes and legendsfrom Ireland's past. life-size figures include robert Emmer/Marry(ex-prime minister of Ireland)/Hitler etc etc and many Literary figures like: James Joyce/George Bernard Shaw/W.B.Yeats and their contemporaries.The crowning touch is an excellent educational narrative for each, activated by the push of a button.Then there was one more attractive/enhancing/charming olace that is known to be as Natinonal Stud at Tully.I was there with my family.I enjoyed and liked it very much.Many of the winners of the world's most richest races were born at the National Stud.Here thoroughbreds live in what closely resembleds a first-class motel . Visiters are allowed from Easter to October.The Irish Horse Museum on the premises credits Celts with inventing the horse-shoe.
As a sort of side-show to the main event , an immeaculate Japenese Garden adjoins the stud.In the beginning of the 20th century , one Japanese gardener and 40 local men worked for four yearsd to transform an Irish bog into a little world of sheared shrubd, disciplined trees,a lotus pond and even a teahouse and a red wooden bridge.
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