I can’t say that I have set the world on fire with sightseeing lately. I was here in Ireland a couple of years ago with some friends…Wes and Nadine. Wes had scoped out the whole route and sights and drove! It can be a bit hard to really get out in the wilderness without a car. I did take the train over to Galway (on the West side). In the space of the two hours the trip took I started getting very sick and spent the entire 4 days there in bed! Ugh. The good part of this was that I had a nice room at a small hotel and had a big TV so I could watch the Olympics. My room at Trinity College in Dublin does not have such luxuries. The Paris Olympics that I saw were wonderful. I had also planned to spend 3-4 days in Belfast but there have been some riots and unrest up there and so I did not go. Here are some more street scenes in Dublin. I have my little routine of going for coffee in the morning and catching up on the news.
On the 20th, I will leave to go to Manchester, England where I start a 3 day tour of Wales which I have never been to. I am letting someone else do the planning!! Then I think I will head over to York, England. It has been a very long time since I was here. Then maybe to Oxford and then London.