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\nTuesday morning (4 Dec 07) I set off from our happy home for a few days in Dublin. To quote myself<\/a> (how pathetic is that?)<\/p>\n

\nAt the kind invitation of Michael O’Neill<\/a>, I am going to the University of Dublin to give a talk in early December, which will be lots of fun. I’ve been to Ireland once before, to give a talk at the University of Limerick, and really enjoyed it. I’ve never been to Dublin, though, so I’m quite excited. Dublin Tourism<\/a> has a very cool set of free podcast walking tours<\/a> (smart people, them) which I’ve been listening to as a way of figuring out where I want to visit in my limited tourism time.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Giovanni (my office mate) pointed out the helpfully obvious today, namely that I could probably get a tour guide to Dublin from our city library. Duh. I’d looked at some in shops, but spending \u00a310 for a book seemed a bit daft when I’ll only have one solid day of touring to do. Checking one out from the library, however…<\/p>\n

I’m hoping for some nice weather so I can spend a lot of time just walking around and taking photographs. The aforementioned walking tours are really nice and have me quite pumped. We are talking December in Ireland, however, so I’m not holding my breath. Happily, there are lots of cool indoor things that I also want to visit. Chief among these is Trinity College Library<\/a>, as they have many wondrous things including the magnificent Book of Kells<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’ll also be flying Ryanair for the first time. The flight is incredibly cheap, to the point that it seems fundamentally wrong. The true cost (including pollution and other environmental impacts) just has<\/em> to be more than the \u00a340 or so I’m paying round trip.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Del Amitri<\/a> for the cool photo<\/a>, which I discovered using Flickr’s nifty “Places” feature<\/a>. Being able to quickly sift through some very cool photos of Dublin has both given me some ideas of things I’d like to see and photograph, while also pointing out some clich\u00e9d shots I may want to try to avoid. (I’ll probably fail, since I’m a total sucker for a pretty clich\u00e9 shot, but I can try.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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