Wednesday June 17, 2009

We left at 7:30AM to go to Dublin.  We had a two hour Dubliners tour in the rain.  The tour was really good and I think we all have a much greater appreciation for the book Dubliners by James Joyce, which we read for class.  We went around to the places that were written about in the story and learned a lot about the imagery and writing style of Joyce from our tour guide.  It was raining quite a bit.  For lunch we packed out a sandwich shop called something like O' Something or another.  We then went to a tour of the Hugh Lane gallery, which is a gallery that Hugh Lane started a long time ago as the first contemporary art gallery.  I was totally blown away by the completely red canvas that is worth thousands of dollars, come on... that is not art.  There was some good Irish art in there as well as some of the French impressionists that I like.  There was also some complete crap.  After the gallery it was like 4pm and we had the choice to wander around or go home, and we all really just wanted to go home.  We drove back and had dinner at Pizza Express whose name is not anything like the inside.  Its a gourmet pizza shop that specializes in personal pizzas with all sorts of stuff on them.  An there is nothing "Express" about it.  I am not entirely sure why it is called Pizza Express because I was thinking Dominos before we got inside.  Oh well. At home there was a full double rainbow.  It was absolutely incredible.