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Thursday, September 30, 2010

Beagoraaahhhhh and such

Well hello from Dublin again!! When I last left you we were going on a city tour. Well, we did that. It was actually really cool and interesting. We got off at the national Irish museum that was actually really not very interesting. They did have these bog bodies though, which were human remains that were found completely preserved by peat and stuff... Weird and gross but cool. It was around 530, so moat of the cool museums and stuff were closed. We saw the outside of the Guinness storehouse though!! Haha we could e gone in if we were a bit earlier, but Alack and alas, we weren't. Also, for those of you in mrs maakells English lit class, do you remember Jonathan swift???? He wrote gullivers travels and the modest proposal? Well, turns out he's Irish and from Dublin. Near the end of his life he typing he was going insane so he donated a bunch of money to go to an insane asylum out in the countryside so crazy peoples screams wouldn't be heArd by city folk. Anyways, his body was dug upbNd examined a while later, and it turned of he just had some ear disease...sucks.
Today we did a south coast tour of Ireland, where we got to see the ocean and coastaltowns and ended up at this fancy castle with fancygardens. We saw sinead oconnors house!! It was in a really pretty seaside town. Just divine.
Tomorrow we are off to France. To Normandy, more specifically. But we can't figure out how to get around without renting a car... But well figure something out.
Ta for now

--t

2 comments:

  1. Tay, if you're going to Bordeaux just plan on staggering. xoxox

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  2. Jack Black has a new movie coming out based on Swifts novel Gullivers Travels.

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