If you have a spare afternoon on a lazy weekend, do what I did and head out to the coastal towns of Malahide and Howth, easily accessible from the DART lines at Connolly and Tara Street stations. After a half-hour’s ride, you step out to the peaceful, picturesque villages, so different from Dublin’s constant bustle. It was a relief in a way to go there, a way to relax yourself from the metal buzz you’re constantly veiled in, when you live in a city.

Howth also has a lovely farmer’s market on Sundays, though I don’t know how much longer into the cooler weather it will last. Malahide has a long stretch of park-beach that the whole town seems to congregate it, and you can spend a pleasant few hours watching the clouds pass by and the dogs chase the waves. I highly reccomend this, especially before the weather turns.