In the morning, I had coffee and a continental breakfast downstairs, and then I got on a hop-on, hop-off bus to tour around Dublin and see some more areas I had not seen before, and some that I had seen in 2012. When we went by Sweny Chemist, I had to get off and see…

After breakfast on Tuesday, we were taken to the Westport train station, where most of us were leaving for Dublin that morning. I enjoyed watching the countryside of the center of Ireland, but I did not take photos. I just stayed in the moment of seeing. Once we got to Dublin, many of us said…

After an excellent breakfast at Ariel House, we braved a wicked wind to roam the streets of Temple Bar (very quiet on a Sunday morning, as you might think) and central Dublin until the museums opened that afternoon. A public art show wrapped two sides of the edge of St. Stephen’s Green, where, again, a…

>Since we were too early to check into Ariel House, we left our luggage there and hopped back onto the DART train to go to Trinity College, where I wanted to see the Book of Kells. This was a major item on my list, and in retrospect I maybe should have waited until I was…

Saturday, May 12, 2012 After touching down early in the morning at Dublin Airport, bleary from our body clocks’ insistence that it was 1:30 a.m., we muddled our way to a city bus taking us to the center of Dublin, where we hopped off too early on O’Connell St. on the advice of someone who…