slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Category: Ireland
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Photographs from our visit to Brú na Bóinne, the Newgrange and Knowth sites. It was a blustery day and we got cold and wet despite our umbrellas. It taught us to keep our raincoats close at hand in future outings in Ireland. Next post – Tuesday, May 15, 2012: Heading south
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On Monday morning, we had an elegant full Irish breakfast, then caught a taxi to the airport. We meant to take a bus, but a taxi zoomed up to us at the bus stop and offered to take us to the airport for the same fare. The taxi driver talked about the referendum that the…
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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…
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>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…
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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…
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I had to slow it down. I had a setback with my flexibility and pain, although my strength tests were much better. It was quite disappointing for me because I am so rarin’ to go with all the inspiration I get from my online class with Jude Hill, but I finally accepted (after being told…
slowly she turned 