The Cross The City Challenge
"Good puzzle would be cross Dublin without passing a pub" Leopold Bloom, Ulysses
A tour, team building "exercise" or hen / stag activity with a difference, this tour ticks a number of boxes for the discerning traveller...
✔ Walking tour of Dublin - both north & south, plenty of fresh air & exercise
✔ Taking in traditional & non-traditional tourist sights, best of both worlds
✔ A sense of achievement - That you met the challenge and didn't get distracted by a pub
✔ Certificate provided after to say that you crossed Dublin successfully without passing a pub
✔ A reward of a pint at the end!
✔ Become part of a small exclusive club to have completed this successfully
The Route:
13:00 - Depart from starting point on Lower Mount Street
Points of interest:
13:30 - Pit-stop: Adelaide Road Kiosk
Public toilets, pricey property and public art projects
13:45 - Pit-stop: The Iveagh Gardens
Copper Faced Jack, a subterranean passage and a dead elephant
14:05 - Pit-stop: St Valentine's Final Resting Place
A saint's remains, grave digging, heirlooms and hand me downs
14:20 - Pit-stops: The Liberties
Tea time, a flat museum, Tailor's Hall and community garden
15:20 - Pitstop: Arbour Hill Cemetery
The book bridge, prison cemetery & bootscrapers
15:30 - Mission Accomplished - In a housing estate in Stoneybatter
- Reward time. The reward? A pint of course.
Venue: The delightfully eccentric Glimmer Man or some other venerable establishment
16:00 - Finish. Next challenge? Find your way home!