title End of the Line 2: Bré to Blackrock, County Dublin, Ireland - 1st November 2025 intro After a poke around Dún Laoghaire, Nosher and Isobel decide to visit the other end of the DART line, at Bré in County Wicklow. Unlike the previous trip to Howth, however, the weather takes a turn for the worse and ends up with horizontal rain and strong winds, so we hide out for a bit in a waffle bar on the seafront, and then a café in order to dry out a bit. That evening, the Loudies arrive from Blackrock North and we all head off to Zero Zero pizza on Patrick Street, then on the following day we're mostly hanging around in Blackrock until it's time to head home. imgp4890 The exciting view from the hotel window imgp4891 A comedy cat has got its frizz on imgp4892 Isobel waits for a coffee imgp4894 Cool 1960s relief of St. Michael the Archangel imgp4896 The concrete interior of St. Michael's imgp4897 A modernist concrete font in St. Michael's imgp4898 Isobel and Harry walk up to George's Street imgp4899 Isobel on a bench, next to a lost shoe imgp4903 A brightly-painted building on George's Street imgp4906 Life on Monkstown Farm imgp4907 Isobel braves the weather on Albert Walk imgp4908 It's a lot wetter than it looks on the seafront imgp4909 Looking down towards Bray Head imgp4910 Isobel on the seafront at Bré imgp4912 We end up in Gino's Gelato for a waffle imgp4915 Isobel and the funky lights of Gino's imgp4916 Bré seafront through a rainy window imgp4918 Under a railway bridge: the only dry spot in Bré imgp4919 Isobel under the railway bridge imgp4920 We pile off the fancy train at Dún Laoghaire imgp4922 The L25 bus in Dun Laoghaire imgp4924 Isobel meets the boys off the bus from Monkstown imgp4927 Fred and the gang in the hotel's lounge area imgp4928 The other end of the grand hotel lounge imgp4931 We head out into town imgp4933 A very wet Upper George's Street imgp4937 Upstairs at Zero Zero Pizza imgp4940 Conversation in an Italian restaurant imgp4942 The junction of George's Street and Marine Road imgp4945 A cyclist in the hotel's back alley imgp4946 Harry waits for our lift after checking out imgp4950 We head out of the hotel imgp4952 There's a cool infinite mirror thing in the lobby imgp4954 Evelyn picks us up from the hotel imgp4955 There's some major flooding around imgp4958 Da Wheeze is on the laptop again imgp4959 There's a queue of container ships at Dún Laoghaire imgp4960 Another look over Dublin Bay imgp4961 There's good Hallowe'en stuff on Idrone Terrace imgp4962 More Hallowe'en decorations on Idrone Terrace imgp4963 Evelyn in SuperValu imgp4965 Fred roams around with a basket of Tayto imgp4969 A Frankenstein dances with some children imgp4970 More characters in the Blackrock Centre imgp4972 Fred, Evelyn and Isobel on Main Street, Blackrock imgp4973 The three naked statue people imgp4974 Waiting for the bus on Monkstown Avenue imgp4975 Bold street art in Dun Laoghaire imgp4976 There's Christmas stuff out in Dunnes Stores imgp4978 Fred in Papi Chulo Mexican imgp4979 The view out of Papi Chulo imgp4981 Contra jour on Marine Road imgp4985 Some kids run off with a pallet lifter imgp4987 There's an abandoned pallet in the street imgp4989 The front doors of Blackrock Market imgp4990 Blackrock Market painted on a roof imgp4993 The top end of Main Street imgp4995 The fancy 1905 façade of the Blackrock Library imgp4996 The upgraded Frascati Centre imgp4997 Someone's gone to town with the Halloween thing imgp4999 Carved pumpkins on Oliver Plunkett Avenue imgp5001 Da Wheeze checks some books out of the library imgp5003 Nice iron railings imgp5006 Evelyn's car on Idrone Terrace imgp5008 Isobel takes a photo of a Banksy-esque painting imgp5009 Evelyn considers the graffiti imgp5010 Blackrock bandstand imgp5012 Da Wheeze and Isobel outside Parlour Café imgp5013 Harry's got his heaphones on again imgp5014 An amusing quilted blanket in a shop imgp5019 Street cabinet art imgp5021 Da Gorls' emergency "pumpkin"