day 3, dublin

Our third day was spent in the city of Dublin, Ireland. We began with a three-hour tour of the city with a woman who has lived in Dublin her entire life. While on the tour, we stopped for a while at St. Patrick's Cathedral, which was beautiful. The tour ended at Trinity College, where we saw the Book of Kells. It was so cool to see such an ancient manuscript! Afterwards, we had free time for the rest of the day in the city. I spent the day with my roommate Taylor, and the only boy from RIT who went on the trip, Alex. The three of us walked around the city and photographed for the remainder of the day. We saw some pretty interesting things, including the drunkest woman I've ever seen dancing to some street band's performance and the "bog bodies" at the National Museum of Ireland. These a

ncient bodies (I mean, ANCIENT! from B.C. times) were discovered in some bog in Ireland and were very well preserved. It was so creepy, one of them still had hair on his head! We spent two nights at a very nice hotel and actually ended up in a two-bedroom apartment with a full kitchen. The 6 girls from RIT therefore got to spend the night all together, so we had a lot of fun getting to know each other better in Dublin.

Georgian architecture doors common to Ireland

inside St. Patrick's cathedral

again inside St. Patrick's

flower vendor in the city streets

the woman in red is the drunk woman I referred to above, but I chose to show this picture to show how different a typical Irish band is than one you'd find playing in American city streets

in the Temple Bar area of Dublin (this is what most of the streets looked like in the city)