Ireland!

I had a completely glorious time in Ireland last week. ( travelogue )

Basically, thank you so much to all of you for good advice, we did much better by listening to you than by trying to plan the trip off websites and guidebooks. And you were all collectively right about roads and driving. Also thank you to everybody who asked for a postcard, and to ghoti for recommending me the app. It turned out to really increase my enjoyment of the trip; darcydodo brought a real camera, but I just had my phone. It was really good for me to have the motivation to take the occasional snap of something I really wanted to send to one of you, but to spend most of my time looking at things with my eyes rather than being distracted by photography. I missed lots of you, hatam_soferet when we were looking at manuscripts, and forestofglory when we were learning about ecology, and kaberett when we were being amazed by geology, and lethargic_man when we were trying to figure out language stuff. And my musicians and historians and Christians pretty much all the time.