We started out the day with a wonderful breakfast at our B&B, then set out for Malahide Castle
just down the road a piece and took a tour...very nice..inhabited by the Talbot family for 800 years. Beautiful grounds where we could just envision the Talbots out in the fields jousting or playing polo. As we were leaving, we passed a group of Catholic school children just coming in.
Then on into Dublin where the roads are really narrow and the traffic is horrific, but Auggie did a fabulous job of driving.
We went first to the St. Patrick's Cathedral and stayed there for an hour and took several photos. Then on to trinity College to see the Book of Kells and into one of the five library long rooms where they have 2 million books, but in that one library, there were 250,000 plus a 1000 year old harp and busts of Socrates, Aristotle, and others. The Book of Kells are translations of the first 4 books of the bible, Matther Mark, Luke and John. They turn one page per day and the one they turned today was in Matthew. This translation was done in 800a.d.
Then on to the tour of the city in the Hop on Hop off bus for the next 1 1/2 hours. That was fun, but by this time it was raining. After the tour we ate at a contemporary restaurant in Temple Bar on Fleet Street called Thunder Road....thunderous for sure...hang out for the Trinity College students. Ed had ribs and Caesar salad and I had fish and chips....very good.
Good thing Auggie and Judy rented the Magellan GPS as she (Brigid we named her) got us home safely and timely.
2 comments:
Well I am going to start reading your blog if I want to know what you all are really doing. My mother's first day consisted of spinach soup, home made bread and pay to use grocery carts! Love you all, glad you are having a great day.
Oh goody....please do and let the others know too. Mom is doing all the driving and I know it must be very tiring...everything is backwards and she has to be thinking at all times where those of us not driving can sit and vegitate and cogitate while she is working to keep us all safe.
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