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We've Walked the Way
Where do you begin to tell the tale, of adventures had up hill, down dale? You see what happens when you walk...your creativity is unleashed. Or maybe it is the crisp, green beauty of Ireland that unlocks the poet! I don't know the answer but suffice it to say that we have had an experience and a half that has awakened all sorts of previously …
Visiting the ancestral home
... we are looking for, but the Cake Cafe proves more elusive. Finally have to ask a local and are glad that we did because we would never have found it on our own! I had read about it on an Internet "things to do in Dublin" site and figured it must be good if it rated a mention. It is in a small courtyard at the back of a bunch of shops and is quite eclectic. Mismatched crockery and furniture and all the food is baked on the premises. The cake was yummy (we had chocolate) but ...
Day 27
... Most impressive. The musicians came on after dinner and the were awesome. They had a guy playing the Irish bag pipes a sort of bent recorder and the whistle, which is a very small recorder. They played some foot stomping numbers and some real haunting Irish tues from the man on the pipes. Of course they got the audience involved in everything, clapping and up on stage. After an hour they had some Irish dancers come on, three girls and ...
More exciting research contacts
... to end up in Trinity library. The Long Room in the library is an amazing place as well. They have exhibits there of many books from the 14 and 1500's - Bibles and other religious books as well as other kinds of books like "Aristotle". The books on the shelves are shelved by size so that the largest and heaviest books are on the bottom shelves. This is apparently to help ensure that the walls don't cave in - I am not sure whether this is a joke that ...
A flight of two halves
The guy who turned up to manage the embarkation at Frankfurt fro Lufthansa was I am pretty sure a porter from the ground staff - he decided to invent a completely different way for 200+ people to get on a plane. Firstly you get in a queue to see him to ensure you have a passport and some sort of pre-clearance then you go a sit down or generally stand in the way of everone else - then as time gets short for real boarding ...
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