I arrived at 7 am this morning and so far today I've had breakfast at my hotel, checked into my room early (yay!), walked around pretty much the same streets over and over, had some coffee and read a book in a cafe called nude to wait for it to stop raining (they sell some very sassy t-shirts there but I resisted the temptation), went back to the hotel and took a nap, met a lovely Smithie who has been living here for a while (who as it turns out is also originally from Ohio - scary, scary small world), had a drink with her in a very, very cool, over-the-top Art Nouveau cafe called Cafe de la Seine, walked around some more, shopped. Whew! All in my first day! I'm trying to decide what I want to do for dinner.

So far, Dublin is very nice. My plan for the next couple of days is to see the Book of Kells and check out Trinity College, find and see a film at Dublin's only art house theater called IFI, walk around in St. Stephen's Green (which is right across from my hotel), find some book stores, go back to Cafe en Seine, and after that, who knows. I'd like to see if Dublin has any witchy shops.

Tomorrow I'll be sure to take my camera with me so I can post some pictures.

An Old Celtic Blessing

May the blessing of light be on you—
light without and light within.
May the blessed sunlight shine on you
and warm your heart
till it glows like a great peat fire.

Posted by Angela-Eloise at 1:32 PM