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Dublin is much softer than Belfast, the proving ground for British domination...you know you have conquered a country (or a people, more important because countries are political, people are personal) when you get the self same folk to say stuff like "we will never surrender". Who are you surrendering to? yer !@*&%$ing neighbor? Anyway, it is incredibly beautiful, the country is perfectly green and it is not busy at all, no screaming cars on the road with us, we are blissfully alone when out in the wild. Stopped at a beach today and literally saw every species of algae on the planet in like five minutes. Took pictures of it all, Shannon held it up for me, such a trooper. We are at the Linen House tonight in Bel Fierste city, home of the River Lagan (I saw the danger, yet I walked, along the ancient way, and I said "let grief be a falling leaf, at the dawning of the day.) getting fat eating potatoes and toffee.
Jonathan