{"id":1238,"date":"2025-02-20T16:21:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T16:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangorcitylife.uk\/?p=1238"},"modified":"2025-02-20T16:24:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T16:24:29","slug":"kildare-day-trip-dublin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangorcitylife.uk\/?p=1238","title":{"rendered":"Kildare Day Trip + Dublin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/bangorcitylife.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/WJM_5972-1024x540.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bangorcitylife.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/WJM_5972-1024x540.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bangorcitylife.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/WJM_5972-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bangorcitylife.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/WJM_5972-768x405.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bangorcitylife.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/WJM_5972-1536x810.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bangorcitylife.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/WJM_5972-2048x1080.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Couple of days down south beginning with a jaunt to Kildare Village for some Christmas shopping then returning to Dublin for the rest of my time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kildare Village is lovely as always but remains very expensive, some brands that we would have purchased in American malls are now prohibitively expensive. 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