Day trip into Dublin

Today we are off to a Dublin for the day. Marl and Millie are going on the hop on hop off bus and visiting the Guinness Stonehouse and Graham and I are going to visit Trinity college and wander around the city for a bit.
The train ride in was a bit of a squeeze but didn’t last too long thank goodness. The girls went off to find were to catch their bus and Graham and I found the college. What beautiful building they have here the college is so pretty. We bought tickets for the long room and the book of Kells. There was an audio app you could download which was good, gave you a run down of every point along the way. We didn’t have any headphones so we had to go hide in the corner and listen to each chapter, luckily they only lasted a couple of minutes.

The book of Kells was very impressive. Well the actually book was in a dark room under dim lights but the story of writing it and the animations and reproductions of the pages was amazing. The penmanship of the monks is so beautiful and all the intricate designs and paintings in that book, incredible.

The main chamber of the Old Library is the Long Room; at nearly 65 metres in length, it is normally filled with 200,000 of the Library’s oldest books and is one of the most impressive libraries in the world. They are cleaning all the books at the moments so all the shelves weren’t full but such a beautiful room and so vast.

Time for a coffee and the information centre recommended Bewleys which was just around the corner. Another pretty old building. Bangers and mash and an apple pie and coffee. All the pastries are made on site and they have a viewing room we’re you can watch the staff making them. Just while we were ordering an older made sat down beside us, he was up for a chat with anyone I think. Richard his name was, he keep us amused while we finished our brunch.

Trip down memory lane then as we wandered along the Templar bar area. There is a football match on today between Italy and Germany and the crowds are filling up all the bars early, lots of police around too so they must be expecting it get a bit exciting.

Graham is going to visit a Luthier this afternoon so we got ourselves back to Sandyford in time for that. Lovely old fellow who wasn’t feeling the best really but we had a nice chat to him for an hour or so.

Back to Blue light for our last night there. Another great dinner and totally different music than the night before but just as good.Baca selengkapnya