Day 3 in Dublin

I'm in Dublin with my younger daughter. On vacation. Have been here once before. It's an amazing city. I decided this visit, instead of hopping all over, or being part of a tour, to just spend the week in Dublin. Good choice, I think.
Dublin is small, or compact, so a ton of things are in walking distance of each other. We've been on the go since we got here, although not in that "check it off, let's move on" way. More, "we want to see that, then maybe that" kind of way. I really do enjoy this city. It's more of a "horizontal" format with few buildings over 4-5 stories as opposed to "vertical" cities like New York.
It's just that Dublin has such a nice feel to it. It has history but not in a "do you know where you are?" manner that I remember from London but a more "blue collar" approach. More like "here we are, hope you like it" way or "didn't bring that, ok". Just everyday folks making their way. Maybe it's an Irish thing.
And I've noticed a few things:
-- everyone seems to drive BMW's or Mercedes. BMW's mainly. It just seems like every other car is one.
-- their bacon isn't the bacon that I've known all my life. It's real meat and all but it ain't what I call bacon.
-- everyone smokes. Not in bars, or inside buildings, etc. But on the street, walking from place to place, I haven't noticed this many people openly smoking in New York.
-- walking around I forget that I can't look right for passing cars but rather have to continually look left when crossing a street. Wrong side driving and all.
More in the next few days....