The LAGEOS group arrived at Heathrow Airport from Los Angeles. (Valene and Ed came in on a direct BOAC flight from Anchorage. They had been making a film in Alaska.) We transferred to a flight to Shannon Airport on the west coast of Ireland. The tour through Ireland would take us from Shannon to the Cliffs of Moher, then to Limerick, Blarney, Waterford, and Dublin. On our first evening in Ireland, we went to a Medieval Banquet at Knappogue Castle in Quinn, County Clare. Knappogue is an Irish tower house dating to 1467. It was indeed very Medieval looking inside the banquet hall, fashioned in stonework, and heavy wooden tables and bench seats. A hearty dinner was followed by Irish entertainment: a harpist and singers and dancers. Our motorcoach took the group around the west of
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