Ho hum

Trip Start Jun 28, 2006
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Trip End Aug 21, 2006


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Friday, August 18, 2006

So we've found our way back from the UK to Ireland, and are no parked in Drogheda for the night, a trafficky burgh touted by our Lonely Planet guide as, "stuck in a charmless limbo." Aparently there's a fair bit of history here, including a delightful anecdote about Oliver Cromwell having some defiant Irish lord beaten to death with his own leg. But we've seen little of it, first making dinner and then getting sucked into watching a bit of Irish reality television.

Today was a bit bummy, to tell the truth. We started out with a fantastic free tour of the Belfast City Hall, which is currently celebrating its centenary. In a stroke of good fortune, the Lord Mayor himself, fresh off an official reception and wearing his 14 lb. gold insignia chain, greeted our tour group, and I had my picture taken with him. He's been to Chicago before, and, in his words, he "thought the seaside there was lovely."

Then we set off for Newgrange, the 4000+ year old Celtic burial mound, but by the time we booked into our hostel, we were too late to get a guided tour. Because we have to have the car returned to Dublin tomorrow morning, it looks like we'll have to skip the graves and settle instead for moping around here until tomorrow morning. Because rooms are too hard to come by on the weekends in Dublin, we're staying here and taking the bus back and forth until Sunday night, when we have some beds booked. On Monday it's home again, home again, and on Tuesday I have to work...Sigh.

Grant
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