Medium Dawn Felagund of the Fountain

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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Administrative notes: As evidenced by my scanty posting and silence on comments so far, the Internet at our B&B is not good at all. During the day, I am lucky if I can remain on the Internet for a few minutes straight without losing the signal and having to reconnect. This, of course, makes uploading photos impossible except for late at night, when the Internet mysteriously works almost well. It must be a nightowl, like me. :)

Anyway, I'm doing my best to catch up with posts before leaving Ireland, but I will answer comments when I get home.

Secondly, I sent out postcards today, so if you asked me for one, it's now up to the Irish post office and your home country's post office to come through for us. I have my fingers crossed.

Now, back to our regularly scheduled journal entry. :)

29 June

Today was Marie's last day with us. :(

Because of this, we had planned to get an early start, since we had a rather ambitious agenda for the day: the Guinness Storehouse, the Dublinia Museum, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Christ Church Cathedral, and possibly St. Aidoen's church as well, if we could fit it in passing.

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Saturday, 27 June 2009

Today, we had schedules a tour of the Wicklow Mountains and of Glendalough. The Wicklow Mountains are just south of Dublin. We woke up, had breakfast downstairs, and went to meet the bus on O'Connell Street. We ended up in the wrong queue and were delighted to find that, instead of the sleek silver year-3000 tour bus, we were actually scheduled to go in the smaller red minibus. Our driver was great, introducing us to such gems such as calling Dublin's millenial monument--a tall silver spire that resembles a nice-looking cell-phone tower--the Stiffy by the Liffey rather than its proper name of the Spire of Light.

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