And on the way to Lisbon . . .
More to come!
Here are some of the sights we took in on our wanderings around Dublin recently.
The Garden of Remembrance in Parnell Square near the Dublin Writers Museum
General Post Office known as the headquarters for the Easter uprising in 1916
The Interior of the GPO as it appears today. It was virtually destroyed during the Easter uprising and restored in the 1920s. The GPO now houses the GPO Witness History Museum, a chronicle of the 1916 uprising. You should not visit Dublin without seeing this remarkable exhibit.
Looks like the Leprechauns have gone and started their own museum. (We skipped this one.)
This has been a good week for spinning my wheels, losing things and taking forever to get things done. I will not bore you with the sordid details.
I had the good fortune to visit Edinburgh, Scotland recently and took hundreds and hundreds of pictures. I decided to skip the scenic travel pictures and share the more unconventional ones ones with you.
My husband, apparently encountering a clown on his way to a circus dress rehearsal.
It’s no stranger than an English sign in China, but the juxtaposition of “Tartan Weaving Mill” caught my eye.
What us this world welcoming us into?
A new world disorder?
We can meet at the pub at The World’s End
And if the Zombies find us.
We can escape to Edinburgh Castle
Two photos taken on the streets of London this week seem to provide timely advice given recent events.
I don’t know about you, but it has always mystified me how ancient peoples discovered processes like glass making. I mean, we have all heard about how Rouquefort cheese came to be-you know the Shepard leaves his goatskin of milk in the moldy cave, finds it 6 months later and voila! Quelle fromage! But that was an accident. And in his play John and Mary Doe, playwright Christopher Durang speculates on how a caveman might have invented the, er-if you really must know, click here. But glass? Glass is basically sand that is heated to about 1700 degrees F. until it melts. (The color and other characteristics the glass might have comes from added chemicals.) Historians believe that glass making started around 3500 BCE in Mesopotamia and that the first glass was made in coastal north Syria, Mesopotamia or ancient Egypt. But who wakes up one day and tells his wife or his boss that he is going to the beach so he can bring back some sand and try to melt it? I mean, seriously. But where would we be without glass? In the dark probably.
It was in this spirit that intrepid fellow traveller Patty and I decided to make a detour on our way home from the Morrisburg Polymer Clay Retreat and stop in Corning, NY, home to the famed Corning Museum of Glass. We got into Corning the evening before our planned visit and got to explore the town a little. Here’s what we saw.
Corning is a charming town nestled into the rolling hills of Southern New York State on the Chemung River. It’s home to Corning Incorporated and to the Corning Museum of Glass. Corning is also home to the Rockwell Museum (not to be confused with the Norman Rockwell Museum) which specializes in American Art. The main of the town street is dotted with restaurants, art galleries and antique shops. It really looks like it would be a nice place to spend a day or two window shopping, dining, visiting the museums and enjoying the countryside.
We stayed in the Staybridge Suites right next to the museum so we could get an early start the next morning. It was a good choice and I recommend it.
Next week: The Corning Museum of Glass.
St. Basil’s Cathedral
Le Mutt in Red Square!
I will be posting more about our Moscow experience. Suffice it to say that the Russians are always rushing (at least in Moscow) but I had no trouble going out and finding my way around with the help of a map and occasional requests for directions (it helps to write down the Cyrillic version of your destination just on case the person you ask does not speak English). The people I have met have been very cordial and helpful.
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