It looks like I have some catching up to do on this blog. I haven't posted for the past three days. Much has happened and there's lots to tell. Let's start with this day, the 31st day of our visit to Ireland.
We are not going to be too ambitious today. We decided to visit Trinity College and the famous Book of Kells. It's only about a mile from our guesthouse so getting their with local transportation was not a problem. We signed up for a tour of the college. Our tourguide has been a philosophy professor at Trinity College in Dublin for the past 28 years. He has a very dry sense of humor and gave a very interesting presentation. We walked around the Trinity campus and learned that it has over 16,000 students in a variety of disciplines such as law and medicine. It's an old school, dating back to the seventeenth century.
After the tour, we waited in line to see the Book of Kells exhibit and the old library. It was very interesting. The Book of Kells is an elaborately decorated book dating back hundreds of years when the books were printed by hand on vellum, made from animal skins. The pigments used for the various colors came from many parts of the known world.
After seeing the Book of Kells and the old library, we visited the Science Gallery, also at Trinity College. The gallery was showing ideas that futurists came up with to deal with population growth in the world's cities. They have some interesting ideas, such as planting bare areas using balls of dirt and clay that have seeds inside. When it rains, the balls break apart and the seeds germinate.
We also stopped at the National Gallery. Bruce wanted to see an exhibit on the artists and artwork for the Punch Magazine throughout the years. It was a very entertaining exhibit.
At night, we had a delicious dinner at the Clyde Court Hotel Restaurant, not far from our guesthouse. Nancy and I spotted it and it turned out to be a great place to go.
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