Sunday, June 10, 2012

Exploring Dublin

We spent all day today in Dublin.

Although a fairly large city at 1.2M people, the downtown area is quite compact. Our tour took us to St Patrick’s Cathedral

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The tour also took us to the Trinity College library where pages from the Book of Kells are displayed but no photos as photograph is not allowed in the library. I really wanted to take a photo in the Long Hall but they are easy to come by online so I can get one for our scrapbook.

After Trinity we walked back to our hotel and stopped at a couple of shops. Dublin has lots of small shops unlike cities back home

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Walking back to the hotel we passed this upscale hotel in an old bank building. Tomorrow we’re off to Kildare, Youghal and Cork.

Tom

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The church is beautiful.

There are towns in the U.S. with small shops. I enjoy going to Cape May, NJ, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, Canada; and Wellsboro, PA for that very reason.