Geocaching in Dublin - Day 2

After another hearty breakfast we set off for Phoenix park. This park is about 3 miles to the west of Dublin and I had previously planned to go here because it had one of the largest caches around and would be ideal to leave a couple of travel bugs inside and perhaps bring a couple back with us.

I also wanted to do this walk today as penance and also to make us, theoretically, feel better after the previous nights excess.

We took a convoluted route to the park, passing through Temple Bar (the tourist part of Dublin with overpriced bars and shops) and heading out west. Once at the park we popped into the zoo (we had free tickets) and spent a couple of hours looking at various tigers, sealions and penguins and generally feeling pretty ill. We then did the extra 3 mile walk into the centre of the park to get the Phoenix cache and back out. Disappointingly all the logged travel bugs were missing but I hoped these were simply a loggers oversight as all the remaining contents seemed to be in order.

By the time we were leaving the park (Europe's largest city park) around 4pm we were both struggling. We'd walked a good 10 miles, had slept badly and were both aching. Fortunately the heaven's opened and it started to belt it down. This was the final encouragement I needed to give up and flag down a taxi back to the hotel!

In the evening we went to a fabulous restaurant and logged in another 3 miles walking although no caches.


Day two tally:
13 miles walked.
5 caches found.
2 aching legs.
1 zoo visited.
1 sore head.
0 Guinness consumed.