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I had another great day! I went to the Hugh Lane and saw Francis Bacon's studio. From there I went to the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Kilmainham Gaol. It was terrific, but tiring. I only just got back to the hostel, put some soup on to heat up in the kitchen,...and then my mood crashed.

Logically I know this is probably a side effect of:

a) Too much walking and not enough eating
b) Too much excitement and not enough sleeping
c) Sampling Druid's Celtic Cider*

So I will spare the internet the three pathetic paragraphs I wrote out describing how sad and unloved I sometimes feel. Stuff like that never makes anyone love you more, it just makes people feel guilty and then they resent you for it. It's not very mature either, so I think I'll just call it a night.

*Why have I never learned my lesson for trying things just because I've never seen them before? Seriously, if an alcohol product retails for an entire euro less than the next brand, it isn't very likely to be good, now is it?

I made it to Dublin! I'm having a wonderful time. Where to even begin? I spent yesterday walking everywhere, I mean absolutely everywhere.

Today the weather was briefly sunny so I took the DART out to Dún Laoghaire and walked along the coast as far as the Forty Foot where there were menfolk, um, keeping with tradition. I didn't linger. Went in the Martello Tower, aka the Joyce museum, and poked around for a bit until it started to rain, then I headed back to Dublin where skies were blue.

Yummy late lunch was bought at Blazing Salads, and taken to St. Stephens Green to devour. After that I wandered around some more and ended up at the Science Gallery where "HYPERBOLIC CROCHET CORAL REEF: a wooly wonder" is the current exhibit. It was stunning! I intend to write about it in more detail for a post on

intertwined.

On an unexpected note: while I was rubbernecking on O'Connell street, I tripped over a Tim Horton's paper coffee cup and almost fell on my face. It didn't immediately register as odd because I was busy looking around to see if anyone had seen me stumble; I walked on for about a half a block, and then I had to turn around and go back to look again just in case I was hallucinating. It turns out, Dublin has a Tim Horton's! Who knew?

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Ireland: day three

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