Trinity College - in the rain

 Today was our walking tour of Trinity College along with viewing the Book of Kells and the long room.

The college is undergoing renovations etc so there was a fair amount of scaffolding. 

This guy was the provost and said women could attend over his dead body. Interestingly enough, the year he died the college admitted the first woman. 

Our guide was a student with a focus on geology - so of course we visited the geology building. Which was gorgeous 

From here we viewed the book of kells - was not allowed to take any pictures - but we did see it and it was opened to the first new page in decades. It was beautifully done and the colors were so vivid!

Then came the amazing long room. 

We tried to eat lunch but it was too early so we wasted about an hour then went back to this little italian place

Then we took the worst hop on hop off bus tour ever.  We both were so happy when we got off of it!

Had drinks at the hotel and will head out for dinner soon as we couldn’t get reservations at the nice restaurant here well - 9:30 but that’s too late for us to eat 

Tomorrow is a relaxing day - breakfast at hotel then off to the airport hotel and re-packing for our trip home on Monday