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− | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-1.jpg | + | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-1.jpg|We went there by [[Ferry]], because we wanted our first contact with [[Ireland]] to be by the privileged mean of travels of this nation of emigrants. |
− | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-2.jpg | + | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-2.jpg|Our first close view of the island: its industrial port. |
− | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-3.jpg | + | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-3.jpg|Quickly enough, however, you're embraced by timeless culture. Here in Trinity college. |
− | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-4.jpg | + | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-4.jpg|Walking the city, with Julia. |
− | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-5.jpg | + | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-5.jpg|In front of Christ Church Cathedral. Dublin is very expensive, some attractions, like this one, we admired from outside. |
− | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-6.jpg | + | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-6.jpg|Dublin has two cathedrals. This is the second one: St Patrick's Cathedral. |
− | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-7.jpg | + | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-7.jpg|We did visit this one, but on our first attempt, it was already closed, so we had to enjoy its gardens instead. |
− | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-8.jpg | + | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-8.jpg|Dublin is a Night city, where you can stroll along the black River Liffey bordered by lights of pubs. |
− | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-9.jpg | + | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-9.jpg|One such pub. |
− | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-10.jpg | + | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-10.jpg|The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ha%27penny_Bridge Ha'penny Bridge], cast in [[Shropshire]]. |
− | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-11.jpg | + | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-11.jpg|Irish breakfast. This is pretty much like the English breakfast but with a [[Guiness]]. |
− | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-12.jpg | + | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-12.jpg|A pub by day. |
− | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-13.jpg | + | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-13.jpg|The walls of Dublin are very beautiful, although very British as well. |
− | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17- | + | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-17.jpg|With the same infatuation for red bricks. |
− | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17- | + | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-18.jpg|Although the sky has something of somewhere more deeply engulfed into the Ocean. |
− | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17- | + | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-14.jpg|Julia lookin at the Dublin castle. |
− | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17- | + | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-15.jpg|Which is this. |
− | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17- | + | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-16.jpg|Walking around on some of the oldest stones of the island. |
− | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-19.jpg | + | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-19.jpg|Back to Saint Patrick's cathedral. |
− | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-20.jpg | + | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-20.jpg| |
− | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-21.jpg | + | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-21.jpg|Back to the Dublin streets. |
− | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-22.jpg | + | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-22.jpg|In the national museum. |
− | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-23.jpg | + | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-23.jpg|The Butlers of Ormonde and the FitzGeralds of Kildare shook hands through [https://www.stpatrickscathedral.ie/the-door-of-reconciliation/ this very hole]. |
− | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-24.jpg | + | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-24.jpg|At the National Gallery of Ireland, marvelling at Charles Vincent Lamb's ''Lough an Mhuilinn''. |
− | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-25.jpg | + | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-25.jpg|Julia and Elena in front of ''A Convent Garden'', by Dublin artist William John Leech. |
− | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-26.jpg | + | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-26.jpg|With the end of the world in background. |
− | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-27.jpg | + | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-27.jpg|A very old mirror. |
− | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-28.jpg | + | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-28.jpg|The impressive spire of Dublin, as seen from Earl street. |
− | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-29.jpg | + | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-29.jpg|Beautiful moonrise in the sky. |
− | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-30.jpg | + | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-30.jpg|Typical Dublin walls. |
− | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-31.jpg | + | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-31.jpg|Julia orbiting 'Apples and Atoms', by Eilís O’Connell, a tribute to Walton's discovery of transmutation. |
− | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-32.jpg | + | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-32.jpg|The most famous thing in Dublin: the Irish pub. |
− | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-33.jpg | + | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-33.jpg|We had our share of rain, which is part of the proper atmosphere. |
− | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-34.jpg | + | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-34.jpg|The symbol of Ireland (it's also the one adopted by Guiness), turned into a bridge. |
− | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-35.jpg | + | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-35.jpg|Elena at the EPIC Irish Emigration Museum. |
− | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-36.jpg | + | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-36.jpg|Julia with James. |
− | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-37.jpg | + | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-37.jpg|The Guiness factory. |
− | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-38.jpg | + | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-38.jpg|Julia and nitrogen. |
− | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-39.jpg | + | File:Dublin-visit-Aug17-39.jpg|Fabrice learning the art of pouring a perfect Guiness. |
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We had wanted to visit Dublin since we met. Following our honeymoon in London, we found the uncanny British romanticism suited to our character and wanted to go next to a place similar in character, and thought that Dublin, the capital of a mysterious and remote land, also the shrine of Saint Valentine, and ideal destination. It took over a decade to do that, although as a result we could visit with Julia.
The Ha'penny Bridge, cast in Shropshire.
Irish breakfast. This is pretty much like the English breakfast but with a Guiness.
The Butlers of Ormonde and the FitzGeralds of Kildare shook hands through this very hole.