Over the last, wow I guess three weeks, I've been to Dublin, Ireland, Liverpool, and Canterbury! I'm absolutely exhausted, but I don't care, it's all so exciting and, most of the time, surreal. (all my pictures are uploaded on flick'r so feel free to take a look)
Dublin was beautiful, well not the weather... rain, wind, and about 40 degrees, but everything else was! St. Patrick's Cathedral, the Book of Kells, St. Stephen's Green, so pretty, and... very green. I know, I know it's Ireland, but you never really expect it to be that green! Seeing the Book of Kells was pretty much a religious experience. The letterforms alone were worth the 6 Euro to get in.
The Guinness Storehouse was actually a lot more interesting than I thought it would be. Seeing the process was fascinating, but the section on the advertising—great! They had everything from posters, to ads, to commercials, to the packaging. I'm pretty sure most of Guinness pictures came from there. Getting a free pint of Guinness in the Gravity Bar wasn't so bad either. How many people can say their first taste of Guinness was at the highest point in Dublin? (the Millennium Spire might be the tallest point, but no one is going up there with a pint of Guinness!)
That next weekend I traveled to Liverpool by myself and had the entire day completely packed with things I wanted to do. I left my flat at 4am and got on my train around 5:30am, then at 9:30am I went a tour of John and Paul's homes, I even got to go inside! (I started to cry a few times in John's house, that's how crazy it was being there!) Then, I went to the Tate Liverpool to see the Colour Chart exhibit. It was really really neat. There were Andy Warhol pieces and even the real color studies I studies from a book freshman year.
After that, I went on the Magical Mystery Tour (yes, that's actually what it's called). We toured the city of Liverpool, stopping at all the Beatles landmarks like Strawberry Field, Penny Lane, Sgt. Pepper's Bistro, and the "barber showing photographs" while listening to Beatles songs.
Later I went to the Cavern Club and The Grapes and pretended to be a Beatle. I jumped on stage at the Cavern Club because I just had to do it. I also found the statue of Eleanor Rigby and hung out with her awhile, she was so lonely.
Saturday, I went to Canterbury with one of my roommates and we toured the Canterbury Cathedral, which was incredible! Every time you would make a turn you would enter a whole different section even more grand than the first! We spent an hour or two just sitting by a lake enjoying the day. The sun was out, the sky was blue, and there was a castle in our view, couldn't get much better than that.
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