Ireland day 2
8 October 2017 13:45![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kmusserYay sleep. Ok, our first non-sleep deprived day in Ireland. First up is Trinity College, occupying the center of Dublin since 1592, we get a student led tour of the lovely campus - and it's "frosher's week", so the main square is filled with student clubs making their pitches at the incoming Freshmen. The highlight is their library which is gorgeous (pic), it is also the home of the harp that is the national symbol of Ireland, and the Book of Kells, reputed to be one of the most beautiful books ever created. Images from the book are available online, but don't really convey how vibrant and detailed the illustrations are - you really do need a microscope to see the detail.
From there we go The Immigration Museum, passing a memorial to victims of the great famine on the way. The museum is pretty cool, mostly a celebration of Irish culture and documenting the Irish diaspora. And right outside the museum is Oktoberfest! just in time for lunch. After lunch we make the obligatory trip to the shrine of Guinness, a cool tour/museum there and lovely views of the city from the top of their visitor center, but very much a tourist trap - I think my favorite part was the vintage advertising displays. For the evening we have a very tasty sushi dinner at our host's restaurant, a brief wander though the Temple Bar district, and then ending our evening in a quiet neighborhood pub not in the Temple Bar, enjoying a bit of session music and shooting the bull with the local characters.
Photos: https://www.facebook.com/karl.musser/media_set?set=a.10155484566027247.534887246&type=3
From there we go The Immigration Museum, passing a memorial to victims of the great famine on the way. The museum is pretty cool, mostly a celebration of Irish culture and documenting the Irish diaspora. And right outside the museum is Oktoberfest! just in time for lunch. After lunch we make the obligatory trip to the shrine of Guinness, a cool tour/museum there and lovely views of the city from the top of their visitor center, but very much a tourist trap - I think my favorite part was the vintage advertising displays. For the evening we have a very tasty sushi dinner at our host's restaurant, a brief wander though the Temple Bar district, and then ending our evening in a quiet neighborhood pub not in the Temple Bar, enjoying a bit of session music and shooting the bull with the local characters.
Photos: https://www.facebook.com/karl.musser/media_set?set=a.10155484566027247.534887246&type=3