May 17 – Dublin


The day is a bit gloomy with intermittent sprinkles…a typical Irish day.  Mid-morning we headed out for lunch and then on to see a bit of the sights.  First stop was the statue of Molly Malone of the Irish song about Molly Malone and her cockles and mussels. 
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We then went to Trinity College and booked a tour with one of the students, a woman law student.  She had a lot of history about the college and the architecture. 
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A couple of the main items pointed out were the Campanile…
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and the Sphere within Sphere (which we think looks like the Death Star from the Star Wars movies).
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We then got in line to go into the library to see the Book of Kells.  However, they were having some issues with letting people in so we decided to come back the next day.

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