Dublin

I've finally arrived.

I got maybe 4 hours of sleep on the flight. When I sat down, I had the middle row of 4 to myself. But then soon after take-off, some lady put her 8ish year old son to sleep in the 2 seats on the other end, so I had to manage to get comfy (ei. cramped) in 2 seats to try to sleep. I was exhausted at that point from walking around NYC all day and I don't have anywhere to sleep here in Dublin, so I really had to manage to get some sleep on the plane.

In a couple of hours, I'm going to hop on a train to Tralee (West coast), stay the night there, and then head to Dingle (Peninsula) tomorrow morning. I'm spending about 3 days in Dingle before I head to Cork and then back to Dublin for my last day and a half.

As for New York, I wondered around the city for about 4-5 hours. Figured my way around the Subway system. I checked out Ground Zero... not much to see, just a lot of construction. I then walked to Trinity Church a couple blocks away where people were having their lunch among the grave stones. From there I went to the Frick Collection which was fabulous... Turner, Goya, Velasquez, Rembrandt, and there was a room with 4 massive Fragonard paintings (probably about 10-12 feet tall) on the walls. Then, just a block away was Central Park where I laid down and slipped my shoes off to rest my feet... which were killing me at that point. After that, it was back to the hostel to pick up my big bag and then to the airport.

And now I'm in an internet and bag storage place, so I'm going to go leave my bag with them and wonder :)

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