Galway

We made it to Galway, finally, after a long journey. Five hours at O'Hare was too much, but we touched down in Dublin almost an hour ahead of schedule, collected our bags, found our coach, and set off for Clonmacnoise, the largest assemblage of monastic ruins in Ireland. The high crosses and some of the churches here are a thousand years old. It was at Clonmacnoise that most of the myths we studied this summer were first written down in the 8th Century.

After another short drive we arrived in Galway, around 4pm Irish time, and everyone is on their own till tomorrow morning.