Reading Week - final part

The last couple of days of the week we spent in Dublin.  We visited St. Patrick's Cathedral which was I believe one of the highlights of the trip.  And we took a bus tour around the city which was slightly disappointing.  And then most importantly we did some shopping!

Here is the outside of St.  Patrick's Cathedral.
It is a truly magnificent building!

Inside Andrew M (no not my husband but my friend from Scotland) and I nerded out with the exhibits about Jonathan Swift and his grave.

 Swift is buried behind us there with his long time love Stella.

This display has a bust of Swift, his epitaph, and a declaration that he is buried there.

The beautiful pulpit inside St. Patrick's Cathedral.

On the bus tour around Dublin we saw a number or interesting places such as the Guinness Storehouse, St. Catherine's Church (outside of which Robert Emmet was executed) and Kilmainham Gaol.  We did not have time to visit everything but I look forward to going back and seeing all these places - especially Kilmainham Gaol (jail) - it is where the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising were executed and is said to be one of the best sights in Dublin.

Another real highlight of our time out and about in the city is the Joyce statue or as its called in Dublin 'the Prick with the Stick'.

Here is me and Auntie Gail with Joyce in the background.

I tried to kiss him, but alas he remained allusive!


And finally....

A beautiful night shot of the River Liffey!

It was an amazing trip - clearly because it took me five posts to describe it!!

I look forward to more adventures soon.