\here \i am in Dublin! \looks like the 'shift' key is located in a different spot. Ah well. i'm in a foreign land now!
I can't possibly begin to appreciate this lovely city in a mere 12 hours, but \i am proud of how efficiently \i was able to escape from the airport, board a bus to the city center and begin a circuitous walk around. \i followed the crowds down O'Connell Street across the bridge and to Trinity College. There was no sign, but it looked pretty college-like in front, so I went in the gate.
So far I've seen a place called 'Fuzzy Park', lots of Irish pubs, sculptures of Viking treasure excavated here, some bramble hedges and a quince tree.
God, it's only just past noon. I didn't sleep at all, I mean at all, on the airplane. So, when I got up yesterday morning and got on the plane, and now I'm here, it's, let's see, 4:00 in the morning back in California. I'm feeling a little tired. I won't get home until probably around midnight here. So, it's about 28 hours or so altogether? Not sure about that math.
I looked for Pat Ingoldsby--remember the Irish poet I met--on one of his streets where he has sold his books. But I didn't see him and someone I asked said he hadn't seen him for a long, long time. If he had ever seen him at all... not sure he knew who I was talking about actually.
disappointing. Pat Ingoldsby is partly why I was excited to come to Dublin. Maybe I'll send him a postcard.
I think I need to look for a nice noisy shopping mall or an empty cathedral--both optimal places to take a nap. \much needed nap too!
The particulars are very different, but this reminded me of my 36 hour trip to Dublin. I had taken the midnight ferry from Scotland to N. Ireland, driven all night, climbed a hill to watch the sunrise in Dublin, which didn't happen because of the clouds and spent the better part of a day tracking an Australian poet who was supposedly in town for a conference (staying with a David O'Day) and a Trinity college student my friend had hooked up with on St. Patrick's Day. It was sleep deprived, a complete failure, and a lot of fun. We took the midnight ferry back to Scotland and had to camp at a petrol station until it opened.
ReplyDeleteHope you are safely in Scotland.