Day Five: Kilkenny

30 June

Today, we took a train to Kilkenny. We woke up ridiculously early to get the Luas to the train station to make a 7:30 train. Our B&B wasn't even serving breakfast yet, so we got some seriously overpriced juice and pastries at the train station, and I had my first-ever experience with a pay toilet when I needed--after the sticky pastry--to wash my hands. Perhaps because they're illegal at home, pay toilets just feel wrong.

The train ride was about two hours. I brought my postcards in hopes that I might get them all written on the journey. I got two or three done before falling asleep and staying asleep for the duration of the trip.

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Day Six: Dawn and Bobby Go to Church

1 July

Today, Bobby and I went to see the Dublin Hodgepodge: those myriad things that we wanted to see and, often, had intended to see in passing to other things but had missed or simply run out of time for.

We started with the Book of Kells.

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