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Flew into Dublin Airport and took a cab to our Hotel\u2014The Clarence at 6-8 Wellington Quay. It was too early to check in so we left our luggage, had a light breakfast at the hotel and set out. First order of the day was Trinity College<\/a> and the Book of Kells which was created c. 800 AD. We\u2019d been told the lines get pretty long as the day went on so . . .<\/p>\n Next, we walked over to St. Stephens Green and wonderful, beautiful park in the center of Dublin, grabbed lunch and at 2:00 Went to the National Archeological Museum<\/a>. We\u2019d seen a lot of their gold collection when it had been on display at the Philadelphia Art Museum, years ago but I wanted to see the Bog man<\/a> exhibit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Can’t take pictures inside! Flew into Dublin Airport and took a cab to our Hotel\u2014The Clarence at 6-8 Wellington Quay. It was too early to check in so we left our luggage, had a light breakfast at the hotel and set out. First order of the day was Trinity College and the Book of Kells… Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[382,145],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ireland","tag-ireland","tag-book-of-kells"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2628,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions\/2628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Line](\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/ireland\/kellsLine.jpg\")
<\/p>\nHere\u2019s the line as we left\u2014and growing.<\/em><\/h5>\n