Scenic places Dublin Bus can take me

Bears and Vodka

Basically, the title.

I've recently moved to Dublin and since I have to commute to college every day by bus I have one of those 30 Day bus passes. I always think it's such a waste that I only use it to travel to college and back when it can take me to practically any point in the city.

So the question is, what nice places (from a photography point of view) can Dublin Bus take me? I like taking photos of nature, architecture, city scapes, almost anything really. So far I've photographed the City Centre (too overdone at this stage), Dun-Laoghaire and Howth.

Paulw

Two off the top of my head would be - Botanic Gardens (No 83 bus), Phoenix Park (No 10 bus).

TheVoodoo

Monkstown Village is nice, as it has a mixed bag of things.

Two architecturally very different churches, right across the road from each other. The Seafront, including a lovely view of Dublin Bay, especially in the morning and evening. And some very interesting houses dotted around the village. Theres also a Martello Tower, and when the tide is out you can walk out quite a bit from the seapoint end and get some nice pics of the bay that way.
The 7 bus takes you right into the village, and the 4 takes you to within a 5 min walk of the village(Temple hill Junction) .

magicbastarder

44, enniskerry.

Riskymove

magicbastarder wrote: »

44, enniskerry.

a good choice!

you can also go towards places like Celbridge, maynooth, etc
this opens up options like Castletown House, Carton House and so on

plenty of beaches are options too

a lot of castles are options - malahide, rathfarnham etc


tbh, I think if you googled the kind of sites you are interested in around DUblin that you'd find public transport will get you to most of them

Tallon

^ This!

Get the 66 to Maynooth and get off after Leixlip. There is a stop right outside Carton house!

Beautiful spot!

There is a lovely walk the whole way from Carton house into Maynooth Village to take advantage of too

Once there, head towards the college, or the canal dock at the train station / bus stop back to town

vicwatson

Blessington, can remember bus number, but the lakes are only 10 mins walk from the village.

Rush and Skerries are nice too for some harbour shots - Number 33 I think.

LeoB

Take the 33 out to Rush. North and South beach, Nice walk accross beach to Drummanagh (Martello Tower). Or get bus to Loughshinny and get off at the cross and walk to harbour and take the Cliff walk to Matrello Tower back in to Rush and a cup of coffee in The Thatch. Its a walk of about 1 1/2 hrs with good views of Lambay Island, Rockabill lighthouse and the harbours. PM me if you want directions.

stehyl15

1,47,18 sandymount strand (18 will only leave u in sandymount village) dun leoghaire 7,45a,46a,59,111

Bears and Vodka

Thank you guys! I am taking note of all the places and buses mentioned and will visit them all in the next few months as I get time.
So far I've only travelled to the airport on the 16 bus, Terminal 2 is very interesting architecturally and if you have a tripod, daylight and patience you can try standing just in line with the runway on the kerb and take shots of planes overhead. Plenty of people doing that down there.

penev10

Malahide on the 42 has a plethora of photo opportunities from the estuary to the castle and gardens. The beach, the harbour and the Portmarnock road makes a nice coastal walk with plenty of scenery.