Today was the second day of Ireland, and I felt much more energetic than I did yesterday. We started the day off with a legal lecture, which is ALWAYS exciting. But in all serious, was necessary. Then we went to Noshington, and their lamb meatballs are superb.
Then we got an excellent tour from a tour guide, who I sadly forgot his name. But he had an ability to adapt based on his groups feeling, attitude, and plans for the rest of the day. He first showed us St. Patrick’s church, where he went more into detail than Brad did yesterday when we saw it. After we went to St Patrick one place that stuck with me when he took us to Dublin Castle. There two interesting facts I learned: first being about the several empty flag poles. It didn’t used to be like that, before Brexit it was all the European Union flags, but after Brexit uncertainty occurred so it is now the Irish and EU flag. The second fun fact was about Dublin’s lady liberty. She is not blind folded, nor is she looking out to the city (but inside the judge cell) and finally the scales are fixed. Perhaps that is the difference between a great tour guide and the Culture Smart Ireland book that I read on the plane, the tour guide goes more into detail and is able to answer any questions that might pop into my head. The last thing that he mentioned was the notorious breaking of Viking artifacts. I guess this relates to business as knowing the social significance of what you are doing and how it might draw people away.
After the tour we went on a hop on hop off bus tour. We saw new parts of Dublin in which I had not explored. We saw new things like Phoenix Park. But about half way through it started raining, so I stood underneath a cover on the top deck of the bus. It was a lot of fun, seeing new things, listening to bad Irish music. And I saw a double rainbow.