I'm sitting in a hostel located in the heart of Dublin eating toast and drinking orange juice for breakfast as I write this. This is the morning after the first day of my trip. In a few hours I will head to the airport and fly to London. The original plan was to stay in Dublin for a little over two days and London for two more. However, flight delays caused Cait and I to arrive several days late. Strangely enough we weren't delayed by the ash clouds over Europe but "wind-shear" in Houston. The result of the delay is a one day stay in both Dublin and London. Obviously not what we wanted but it will have to do.....
I met my first "character" at the airport in Newark during a four hour layover. She was a 65 to 70 year old woman who shared her table with us so we could sit and eat. She was very interesting because despite being around seventy she was going on a sort of study abroad of her own. She told of stories of the many previous trips she had taken and described herself as a scholar of the "ancients". By this she meant she was a history scholar, particularly that of Roman times and earlier. Needless to say she was very excited for me when I told her about the last two parts of my study abroad: during the second part of my study abroad I will be studying photography and roman and medieval history, and for the third part I will be trekking on foot from one side of Britain to the other along Hadrian's wall, which is an ancient Roman ruin built around 122 AD. I enjoyed talking to her and I hope I meet many other interesting people during my travels.
It's time for me to catch a bus to the airport. I will post about the rest of day one later. It is time for me to catch a bus to the airport.
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