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A journal, a travelogue, a to-do list, a memoir, a discussion board -- this could be anything. Whatever else it is, may it be a place where the name of Jesus is glorified.
- Lauren
- Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
- I started this blog so that I could keep in touch with everyone at home and share pictures while I'm in England. But I am going to try to keep it up now that I am back!
Summer Reading List
- The Mill on the Floss -- George Eliot
- Brick Lane -- Monica Ali
- The Enchanter -- Vladimir Nabokov
- Reading Lolita in Tehran -- Azar Nafisi
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- Canadian embassy, Ireland.
- . . . but there was no plaque!
- Heard a rumour that this is the oldest house in D...
- Hotel owned by Bono. A little too rich for my bl...
- Window into Dublin.
- This one goes out to Kristen (future RMC student!...
- Leprechauns!
- I don't see any. . .
- Yay for bilingual countries!
- Live Irish music at Oliver St. John Gogarty's. Th...
- palpable atmosphere
- Sarah and Carly at the Brazen Head. We had dinne...
- One of the bars in the BH.
- The Brazen Head is the oldest pub in Ireland. I...
- The Indian restaurant where we had lunch after th...
- Yes, I was really standing there.
- glorious
- You know what they say. Obedient citizens make f...
- I LOVE ceilings like this! Maybe it's time to re...
- The illustrious Citizen Gaius Drummondus.
- The town hall (at least, I think it was) -- one o...
- We continue to be guided.
- Jackie Chan climbed the side of this building whe...
- The lady that is walking away (the one in the per...
- All the names of Englishmen who ruled tyrannicall...
- A window in St. Peter's Church.
- Whoever this guy is, he's not St. Peter. Jonatha...
- St. Peter's Church at Dublin Castle. Above the d...
- Dublin Castle. Only the middle part is very old ...
- I'm not so sure what this was, but it was in Dubl...
- A tree in the quad. It was probably there when ...
- The centre of the Trinity Quad. Like the Univers...
- Trinity College, Dublin, at night. Sorry, I don'...
- Peter, our guide.
- Then on the Friday, Sarah and I went on a walki...
- The "moonscape" atop in the Wicklow mountains. . ...
- A little waterfall -- it has been a dry year in D...
- The emerald pathway behind the monastery.
- Another view of the monastery. The tower was the...
- Old-school cobblestone roof. Extremely heavy.
- It contained this, which we were told was the old...
- Some school boys visited at the same time.
- On our second day in Dublin, we went on a tour of...
- We thought Dublin was really best seen at night.
- A picture of the four of us taken by a couple tha...
- The actors on the pub crawl -- they taught us abo...
- The t-shirt I was destined to win in the literary...
- In The Duke, the pub where our literary pub crawl...
- At the National Library.
- In St. Stephen's Green.
- James Joyce stayed in this area, Howth (the tower...
- Printed on the windows of the gravity bar were qu...
- . . . which has a magnificent 360 degree view of ...
- They definitely overglorify themselves, but even ...
- Carly Barley
- Like most beer commercials, the exhibits were clea...
- Inside the Guinness Storehouse
- If one of those bottle should happen to fall. . .
- Ahh, the history of it all! I can almost smell it!
- Our first tourist stop in Ireland, appropriately e...
- and we had some really fun and interesting times i...
- Yet every city has its beauties. . .
- It got quite out of hand, with many windows smash...
- aka "the stiletto in the ghetto".
- Protesting Orangemen surrounded the millenium mon...
- In fact, our last day in Dublin, the streets were...
- Pure peace is hard to come by.
- And, to continue being fair, the Irish are very po...
- Though to be fair, the city has spent more time b...
- garbage on top of the cans?
- "ghetto"?
- shall we say. . .
- So, our first impression of Dublin was that it wa...
- (home sweet home)The door lock was broken on the o...
- We stayed in a rented apartment in Dublin. On th...
- Our neighbourhood in Ireland.
- Next stop, the Emerald Isle! A friiightening Rya...
- Letters on an Aberdonian tomb.
- King's College, Aberdeen.The University of Aberde...
- Alpine Bikes -- David's cycle shop. He has 5 loc...
- Downtown Aberdeen.
- The retaining wall in the harbour. . . it looks g...
- Uncle John giving us the tour.
- Fair is fowl and fowl is fair.
- The houses are built right up against the sea-wall.
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