In Dublin's Fair City...

...where the girls are so pretty etc etc.  That's a line from Molly Malone, in case you forgot or never knew.  You can hear it sung by the Dubliners (with the late, great, utterly amazing and unique Ronnie Drew at 2mins 13s in) by clicking here.

Anyway, the thing is, we decided this year, my wife and I, rather than buying each other a Christmas gift we would take each other to Dublin for the weekend.  We went a couple of weeks before the Big Day, so we could catch some Christmas Cheer in Ireland's Capital City.  It's been a year or two since I was there - I used to be there quite often with work and such but don't find many excuses these days.  For us Northern Irish folk, with our weak Sterling against the Euro (and every other currency too but that's a different story for a different day), Dublin is a flippin' expensive city these days, too, which isn't conducive to going that often either.

That aside, we had a decent weekend - not fanstastic, but that's the way the cookie crumbles sometimes.  We ambled up and down Grafton Street and looked in a few shop windows and coffee shops and even around St Stephen's Shopping Centre, which is where this snap was taken:

Inside St Stephen's Shopping Mall, Dublin.  On Foma paper, developed in Moersch lith.

It's a rather impressive interior, as you can see - especially at Christmas time.  The shops were less impressive, by the way - although I'm not a shopper by any manner or means it looks to me like it's the same stuff everywhere you go these days.  Not sure who or what's to blame but I'm sure we could find someone/thing if we try hard enough.  This was another one taken on the Yashica T4 Point'n'Shoot camera.  I like the way it came out in lith on the Foma paper - untoned, by the way.