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betarhoalphadelta

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Re: Travels and Impressions
« Reply #1708 on: October 16, 2024, 06:41:42 PM »
The Long Hall library at Trinity College where they host the Book of Kells



And St Patrick's Cathedral. Not my most interesting stop... 


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Re: Travels and Impressions
« Reply #1709 on: October 16, 2024, 06:59:57 PM »
Quote from: betarhoalphadelta on October 05, 2024, 04:03:48 AM
We're hoping to do the Ring of Kerry today but the weather report looks dicey, so we're trying to figure out over the next 1-2 hours whether or not to chance it.
BTW the follow up on this was that we decided that we didn't want to chance the weather. So... We found a pub :72:

And we're chatting with the bartender, who said we probably shouldn't do the Ring of Kerry. "Well, in this weather, you probably wouldn't really be able to see anything anyway. Oh, and you might die."

I guess it was a good choice to skip it. Definitely the one thing that I'm sad we missed the opportunity though. 
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Re: Travels and Impressions
« Reply #1710 on: October 16, 2024, 09:27:56 PM »
and if you skipped it... you could stay at the bar and live long enough to run up a tab
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Re: Travels and Impressions
« Reply #1711 on: October 17, 2024, 03:55:37 PM »
Looks like a great trip bwar!
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Re: Travels and Impressions
« Reply #1712 on: October 18, 2024, 02:08:25 PM »


This is a place to visit if you can make it to Normandy.  It is very sobering, and beautiful.  Colleville-Sur-Mer.  The twin flag poles fly Old Glory, you can't see it in this photo.  
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Re: Travels and Impressions
« Reply #1713 on: October 18, 2024, 02:50:25 PM »
Quote from: betarhoalphadelta on October 16, 2024, 06:33:01 PM
The Kilmainham Gaol (prison). One of the most interesting things I saw on the entire trip. I didn't really know the history of the many attempts at independence for the Irish, and how many of the various protagonists throughout history ended up here. Again, pictures don't do it justice...




Kind of looks like Shawshank.
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Re: Travels and Impressions
« Reply #1714 on: October 18, 2024, 04:19:03 PM »
Quote from: LetsGoPeay on October 18, 2024, 02:50:25 PM
Kind of looks like Shawshank.
I thought the exact same thing when I walked into that room...

They pointed out that there's a good reason for that... That section (built well after much of the rest of the prison) was a specific prison design heavily used elsewhere:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon

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Re: Travels and Impressions
« Reply #1715 on: October 21, 2024, 07:38:50 AM »
Black Elk Peak in South Dakota

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Re: Travels and Impressions
« Reply #1716 on: October 21, 2024, 09:26:13 PM »
In central mass relaxing [img width=258.328 height=281]https://i.imgur.com/2tbNXx6.png[/img]
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« Reply #1717 on: October 30, 2024, 11:21:58 PM »
I travel Boston a fair amount for work related matters.  Know the city fairly well, always enjoy my trips,  though one thing I had never done is visit TD Garden.  I went to the Bruins game last night.    bought a pretty good seat, yet totally on-brand for Boston,  the seats are designed for short people.  The dude next to me was about my 6-1 frame, and it's a sardine can.  Boston is a dense town, I get it, but there's never enough leg room anywhere.  hotel rooms are small, (ex. Parker House Hotel, the door to the bathroom hits the toilet), Fenway's got notoriously awful leg room.    uncanny.    a not very good Flyers team shut out the totally uninspired Bruins 2-0 (empty netter with less than a minute).

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Re: Travels and Impressions
« Reply #1718 on: October 31, 2024, 09:28:11 AM »
I'm only 5'10" and getting shorter
I'd like to go to Fenway
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« Reply #1719 on: October 31, 2024, 10:00:32 AM »
Fenway is awesome.  A true cathedral of the sport.  Don't tell Cubbies fans but I like it (slightly) better than Wrigley Field.
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Re: Travels and Impressions
« Reply #1720 on: October 31, 2024, 11:56:11 PM »
Fenway is indeed marvelous.

I feel Wrigley has about 50% bad seats that i would not consider.  Fenway about 25%.  I feel their renovation has markedly made it better than Wrigley, which i feel I need to revisit again after it's own renovation to judge again. 
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Re: Travels and Impressions
« Reply #1721 on: November 01, 2024, 08:02:43 AM »
I could do that

a buddy of mine wants to take a golf/baseball trip

golf in the morning/afternoon and take in a ballgame in a different ballpark in the afternoon/evening
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