Backtracking - Some Pics from Dublin

For much of the earl part of our trip we were constantly on the go and didn't have time to give you all a taste of where we were or what we were doing and so now that things are at a slower pace we will start giving you all a little backtracking mixed in with current events from the road.
PS - I am not sure why this is all underlined but some times we have to give in and let the computers win!

Hanging out with good friends! Adrienne is a childhood friend of Cheryl's that lived in Dublin for 3 years. We caught her the week before she left to return to Canada!

Pete is her lucky fiance :)

A view of the Dublin City streets

This is a library at Trinity University in Dublin and the Book of Kells is quite a famous copy of the four Gospels from around 1000 years ago give or take some years. We had turned up to the library on a whim because it is one of those things your just supposed to do so while we were walking about town we figured we should try to see it. However when we got there we were too late to go in and see the book and so we were standing there debating on whether we would have time the next morning to come and see the book. That is when the attendant who overheard us whispered if you hurry through and don't stop anywhere else then we could go on in for free. Being smart travelers we decided not to ask questions but to get to walking ASAP. Originally we didn't really think this was something we would visit and would that have ever been a mistake! The artistry alone with how the pages were painstakingly drawn by the monks copying the Gospels was worth the price of admission alone, let alone all the other wonderful things we had to breeze by due to our late admission!


Being one of our more classic tourist moves we went by the home of the Irish National Drink, however being budget travelers we opted not to go on the rather pricey tour of what at the end of the day is just another brewery. My apologies to all the Guinness fans out there!

This is a taste of the healthy Irish Cuisine (ofcourse this was too early in the morning for the Irish national drink!)

This is the oldest building in the World! It is some type of religious site in Ireland called New Grange. There is no way to interpret the markings on the stones and so much of what it was about is conjecture however given its precise alignment with the Winter Solstice it is clearly connected to the cycles of the Sun.