There are many roads to Dublin.....

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There are many roads to Dublin.....

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There are many roads to Dublin, and I will be taking a couple of them in a few days for the next week starting at Dublin airport wednesday : )

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LH wrote:There are many roads to Dublin, and I will be taking a couple of them in a few days for the next week starting at Dublin airport wednesday : )
It seems to me that you will be taking roads from Dublin...
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Basically, all the better roads in Ireland seem to be designed to get you to or from Dublin. It gets annoying sometimes when you want to go somewhere else and all you have available are glorified cow paths. Have fun and enjoy the sheep and beer.
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I recommend paying a visit to Newgrange if you get a chance.
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LH wrote:There are many roads to Dublin, and I will be taking a couple of them in a few days for the next week starting at Dublin airport wednesday : )

cheers,

LH
get out to the West Coast. Especially the middle west coast and the NW coast (beyond Northern Ireland).

It's like another world.
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Valuethinker wrote:
LH wrote:There are many roads to Dublin, and I will be taking a couple of them in a few days for the next week starting at Dublin airport wednesday : )

cheers,

LH
get out to the West Coast. Especially the middle west coast and the NW coast (beyond Northern Ireland).

It's like another world.
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LH wrote:There are many roads to Dublin, and I will be taking a couple of them in a few days for the next week starting at Dublin airport wednesday : )

cheers,

LH
lol! have fun!
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Be careful.
There are many roads to Dublin but not one from Dublin.



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hsv_climber wrote:It seems to me that you will be taking roads from Dublin...
Are they one-way roads? Otherwise they should work equally well for both "to" and "from". 8)
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As a certified Boglehead, you must travel to Eire with the following in hand:

Q. Why is Ireland so rich?
A. 'Cause its capital is always Dublin.

:oops:

Really bad, I know...

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I just woke up from a weird nightmare in which I was looking at Google Maps and there were NO roads to Dublin. There was one road going southeast from Dublin, connecting to some small towns, but it was all a dead end, not connected to anything else. There were two long, straight parallel roads going due north from Dublin, but after a while there was just a strip of white emptiness on the map where the roads should have been. They turned back into roads at some point, connecting to the rest of the country, but I somehow knew that going on those roads beyond the point where they went blank on the map would be a profoundly bad idea.

I have to stop reading this forum before bedtime.

Dream analysis, anyone?
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I tried googling it but I couldn't find an answer...where does the saying "there are many roads to Dublin" come from?
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"There is more than one road to Dublin."

Taylor Larimore is the one whom says it not infrequently I believe on this board.

Basically, all roads lead to rome kind of thing, except for Ireland, which was never invaded by the legions, and where there are many roads that lead to Dublin : )

Basically, it was an attention attracting play off Larimores use of it.

http://www.dublintourist.com/maps/irela ... _map.shtml shows the current major roads.

I think the phrase was in an ireland guidebook as well. It basically comes from the fact that it is true, and has been true for quite some time as far as I know, thats all there is to it.
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Thanks for the map> I was relieved to learn that Dublin has a beltway that goes neither from nor to Dublin but only semi around it.
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Going West will lead you to any destination in the East. The travels just may be far.
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LH wrote: Thu Sep 16, 2010 7:28 am "There is more than one road to Dublin."

Taylor Larimore is the one whom says it not infrequently I believe on this board.

Basically, all roads lead to rome kind of thing, except for Ireland, which was never invaded by the legions, and where there are many roads that lead to Dublin : )

Basically, it was an attention attracting play off Larimores use of it.

http://www.dublintourist.com/maps/irela ... _map.shtml shows the current major roads.

I think the phrase was in an ireland guidebook as well. It basically comes from the fact that it is true, and has been true for quite some time as far as I know, thats all there is to it.
Is there not an intention of a "double" entendre? :-) As in, "there is more than one road to doublin' (your net worth)"? We Boglehead adherents can all likely anticipate some manner of growth curving upward but with no exact winning recipe since we all have varied nuanced situations, means, and needs?
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This thread itself may be on the road to doublin' again, after more than twelve years of dormancy.
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