Ben & Becky's Trip to Ireland
August 2008
  
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First week:  Dublin

Our first sight of Dublin!     The Ha'penny Bridge over the River Liffey     Cart and horse ride     Humorous advertisement     How's your favorite doll or teddy feeling?     Carrot soup and brown soda bread at Alfie's     One of Grafton St.'s performers; deposit a coin, get a candy and a handshake!     The famous O'Neill's Pub     A "hooded crow"     A better shot of the hooded crow


National Botanical Gardens

 Teeny little blossoms on this bush!     An old arch     Ben & blooms     Becky is introduced to a tall plant    Wow; never met one of these before!     Becky and the organic fountain sculpture     A giant shelf-fungusy thing     A monstrous floating sea bean     Curious old tower we couldn't investigate (outside public area)    Angel trumpet--fabulous!     Interesting bloomin' thing

Big beautiful flower     Even bigger flower--about 12" tall!     Rhododendron family     Flowery hanging lace     A pitcher vine?     What a beauty!     From the moss and fern room     Curious and sticklike     Look at those fatter ends! Most interesting     More impressive pitcher flowers    What's in this building?    Tree with torturous red trunk

Monstrous shrubbery!      A magpie hides in the branches     Banana leaf umbrella     Wondrous pattern     Tiny fierce thorns on this tree trunk!     Oh, what is that stuff called...bougainvillea or something    Red bromeliads!     Such delicate white flowers!     Spotted and blotched bromeliads      Here's a real pitcher plant     Another big building of plants

The front gate in English...     ...and in Gaelic
 

"Dublinia":  Medieval and Viking History of Dublin

This figure would tell the reason he was in the stockade if you threw a ball and hit him on the head!     Becky the medieval mistress     Slave Ben is up for sale     Carved wooden dragon head     Medieval clothing fasteners made by the demonstrator     Viking woodcarving     Viking words in the English language--surprise!      Model of medieval Dublin      View of Dublin near Christchurch    

Christchurch

 Stained glass window in Christchurch entry     Detail of entry window     Corner detail in the stonework     Strange to see a tourist shop inside a cathedral!     Beautifully tiled floors     More tilework     Arches in the nave     The vaulted ceiling     Looking toward the choir     Wonderful stained glass window     Five beauties     The carved wooden pulpit 

The choir     Tombs in the crypt     Another tomb     Mummified cat and rat     The story...     Christchurch exterior (note the buttresses!)     A chapel    


More Dublin  

A tavern called The Pale     Explanation of the name on the back of the menu     Ben at The Pale     A lovely native flower    St. Auden's Church      Original street cobblestones under the church floor    A tomb inside the church    Memorial stone carving    A tomb in the floor    Ruins of the oldest part of the church    No space is wasted; notice that they built the next building smash up against the ruins!   

Becky amongst ancient ruins    Inside the still-used part of the church    Elaborate tomb (note Elizabethan neck ruffles!)    The tour guide in front ot the church organ    Listening to the long-winded tour guide (I had to sit down!)    The oldest pub in Dublin    Pretty old, all right!    A jolly message in stained glass    Westernized youth -- seen everywhere    Ben enjoys his Guiness in the hotel bar    Nice view of Dublin looking southeast from our hotel window  



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