The policewoman was nice when were were ordered to pull over. No fine, good advice.
The hostel girl with the owl tattoo was nice when we arrived at the wrong Times Hostel in Dublin, run by the same company.
The boy was nice when we dropped the car back and then had to fill it with petrol rather than 'face financial suicide'.
Phil was nice company as we ate, relating how many girls she has lost to Australia.
Mark (after the saint) is booked in for Monday, and remembered my name when we confirmed the fare and new address.
Phil was nice company as we ate, relating how many girls she has lost to Australia.
Mark (after the saint) is booked in for Monday, and remembered my name when we confirmed the fare and new address.
The weather is nice for us to wander around Dublin, our last day.
Trinity College is a wonderful place, absolutely full of musty old books. It is a place of learning, new learning, old learning. It is the place neither Patrick nor I should work. We would be reading and poking and getting lost in the alcoves. We would be found with our heads in a book, fascinated by all the bindings and words and thoughts bound.
Trinity College is the home for the Book of Kells. No photographs allowed.
We spent a long time gazing and reading and admiring; intricate design, worshipful reverent copy hand.
When we emerged, hours later, the long line to get in surprised us. Hint: get there early to avoid queues.
Dublin is a pleasant place. The River Liffey runs through the middle of the town. Poets and writers have their words written on boards above shops. Music echoes in the malls. Brash modern has edges ripped off at street corners. Flowers soften dark and brooding brickwork.
Trinity College is a wonderful place, absolutely full of musty old books. It is a place of learning, new learning, old learning. It is the place neither Patrick nor I should work. We would be reading and poking and getting lost in the alcoves. We would be found with our heads in a book, fascinated by all the bindings and words and thoughts bound.
Trinity College is the home for the Book of Kells. No photographs allowed.
We spent a long time gazing and reading and admiring; intricate design, worshipful reverent copy hand.
When we emerged, hours later, the long line to get in surprised us. Hint: get there early to avoid queues.
Dublin is a pleasant place. The River Liffey runs through the middle of the town. Poets and writers have their words written on boards above shops. Music echoes in the malls. Brash modern has edges ripped off at street corners. Flowers soften dark and brooding brickwork.
Please don't thump me.... but... what is the Book of Kells?
ReplyDeleteno thumping to had or given here...I am only sorry there are no photos. The Book of Kells is a copy of the testaments, hand written and decorated by Irish monks in about 600AD. It is beautiful; hand painted Illuminated letters and flourishes praising God and his word. The monks considered it an act of worship to sit in their dark cells or 'libraries' copying the Bible, praying and contemplating the very words they were writing. They took books like these (and smaller) in leather satchels on their evangelistic journeys. This one and a few others survived.
ReplyDeleteWow that's cool :)
ReplyDeletecheck out Iona and the story that goes with that island
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