Trinity College

Hello! This is my journal from my trip to Wales during the Fall semster of 2004. I spent four months at Trinity College in Carmarthen, Wales. I also traveled to: Ireland, Scotland, England, Italy, Spain, Germany, Czech Republic, and Poland. Come read about ...

... so few have such a long reach and have made such a broad contribution in so many walks of life. In Dublin, our first stop was Trinity College, now part of the University of Dublin.  It houses in its Old Library the Book of Kells, an intact set of the ...

... Ireland, or Europe for that matter, will tell you, Dublin is one of the most expensive cities in the world. Then I stumbled across the Trinity College website & we were set!   Of course we had to get there...  You would have to be nuts ...

... foibles and collisions were great to watch. We were wanting someone to fall in, but nobody did! Also, most importantly, we visited Trinity College, and its library. Trinity College produced such great scholars as Isaac Newton, and of course, Eden Colvile, ...

A quick visit to Trinity College. Apparently, it was also the start of the new semester. The reason for coming here is to see the Book of Kells and the Library they have of all of the old books. ...

... of the Chemistry section and research facilities without actually going inside since I didn't have access. On my way back, I stopped in Trinity College to see the dining hall and gardens. They were setting up for dinner as I walked in and each setting ...

I woke up extremely early this morning (6:30am), which is only about 12:30pm Grand Forks time, so I guess it really isn't all that early!  Anyway, I went to St. Patrick's Cathedral today, and I can't believe I was lucky enough to get there in time ...

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... afterwards, took the A10  to Cambridge and parked under a hotel. We wandered the old streets in the cold and saw both Trinity and St. Johns colleges from their quadrangles. I think I prefer Oxford. We had a big lunch of chicken and bacon and salad ...

... the pictures from the guidebooks I had memorized. As my cab driver began to describe the city’s layout, we approached Trinity College which looked more majestic than any guidebook could ever portray. My taxi driver jumped out of the cab and popped ...

... abroad questions since I don't have a student visa.  I couldn't respond with "traveling with 30 other people and staying at Trinity College for a month".   Once I got to the heart of the city it was very close to what I had expected: busy ...

... . We were through customs and had our bags by 5:20 a.m. Then we discovered that the bus we needed to get us from the airport to Trinity College didn't start running until 6:30 a.m. Sooo we sat and had coffee and tea and tried to wake up a bit. We got the ...