Hey again. The Dublin excursion, should you be curious, was a tremendous success. My son was super-enthused about Trinity Dublin, so we’ll see, but it was great to check the place out, walk around the campus and meet some of the student body and faculty, etc. We didn’t make it to the Book of Kells, alas, but oh well … maybe next time.
If you’ve not been, Dublin is a warm and inviting city. The food was superb, the people were terrific, and we drank at multiple pubs on both side of the Liffey. It rained a fair bit, of course, but that wasn't unexpected. As threatened, we also hit Dublin’s network of record stores like a well-wielded shillelagh, rifling through the bins at likely spots as The Rage, Freebird Records, The Sound Cellar, Spindizzy Records and both locations of Dublin’s still thriving Tower Records. I was hoping to find a far-flung rarity or two by favorites like Stump, the Stiff Little Fingers and the Virgin Prunes, but no such luck. I did pick up some discs by comparatively newer Irish bands like Sprints, the Fontaines D.C. and a band called the Mary Wallopers that I’m greatly looking forward to listening to.
Anyway, I’m now trying to reacclimate after our whirlwind jaunt, so please do bear with me.
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