Woke up early...
Walking between salary men and women going to work.
Reaching a nice coffee place
where we could find:
scone (so much more delicious than those in France !!) for Aurèle,
muffin for Yuta
and...
and first Irish breakfast for Amané;
Boudins (they call it porridge, it made with a lot of cereals),
sausages, eggs, mushrooms, bacon
and bread (this one is white but it'll be brown from the day after) with butter.
She also tasted chai for the first time
and she likes it so much
that she'll ask some more aften.
Amané wanted a new cap:
she chosed the irish rugby national team...
What means the H everywhere?
It's for firefighters : on the pavement
there is a firehydrant.
We went to Merrion square...
Red bricks, ironwork lacework,
colourful porches, the large "place"
Merrion Square has all the hallmarks
of late 18 century Georgian architecture.
Many famous people lived there:
Wilde, Yeats, O'Connell, G Russell...
Nowadays, a few embassies,
cultural centers as well as private home
and association workshops coexist there.
Oscar Wilde house:
it's also the American literature center.
Langage and cultural german center:
Amané walked passed the door
which opened automatically.
In the center of the square,
the Merrion park:
Lot of statues : important people
as Oscar Wilde !
We then reached an other park...
Saint Stephen green
We then walked around the commercial streets
as Grafton... we saw a young lady singing with her guitar...
We entered a beautiful old commercial center
In order to reach Trinity College,
we walked in walking commercial really vivid streets.
Arriving Trinity College: it was a monastery
transformed into a university by Elizabeth 1 in 1592.
Opened to catholics in 1873 and to women in 1903.
Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett studied there...
More than 18000 students
from over 120 nationalities
study there.
We had to go behind the big places to find
less tourists and more students !
We even saw Beckett Theater, made by wood !
and Amané found the playground !
There was an other bigger just near
where people were running...
Then we entered the Book of Kells exhibition.
It was really well done:
we learned about the way of making those books from medieval times:
who was writing, drawing, coloring it...
How they did that...What kind of materials and tools
they used for it...
I really loved all the natural colors
and incredible patterns they used.
We saw the book of Kells
Book of Kells contains the 4 evangiles
around 500 "pages"
and was written drawen around 806.
Some Iona monks created it in kells.
And then we entered the old library.
500 meters long, usually 200 000 oldest books.
2 stairs.
Old wooden barrel vaulted ceiling, and dark oak shelves,
marble busts of famous writers and philosophers create
a majestic athmosphere.
Amané was a little disapointed
because they took out most of the books
to renovate them...
The Brian Boru Harp, one of the oldest surviving gaelic harps
and symbol in Ireland.
Seagulls are everywhere in Dublin,
even in Trinity college !
We walked a lot this day...
So we did some pauses:
like eating an ice cream.
There were everywhere some icecream shops...
We passed by the Powerscourt center:
beautiful luxurious old commercial center which was first a private house....!!!
Built in 1775 and became a commercial center in the 60es.
Inside some little shops...
Some of them with antiques jewells...
Snack pause in a nice special coffee place:
built in the years 1920 it was a litterature place
where artists like Joyce Yeats or Beckett came.
Stained glasses artwork was so beautiful there.
We then walked to Camden's streets:
an other Dublin, less turistic, more realist !
There was some graf and still ot of colors
We ate our dinner in a pub
as usual: so huge !!!
We came back to the center of the city by bus.
If you put sound on, you'll hear
2 Irish teen talking.
