{"id":13559,"date":"2023-08-21T13:03:44","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T20:03:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/?p=13559"},"modified":"2023-08-21T13:04:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T20:04:08","slug":"land-of-guinness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2023\/08\/21\/land-of-guinness\/","title":{"rendered":"Land of Guinness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today we jumped across the Irish Sea (technology RULES) and landed in Dublin for the second stage of our trip.  We didn&#8217;t plan much in the way of activities since we didn&#8217;t want to risk shenanigans with travel logistics, so the day&#8217;s activities were limited to a trip to the Botanical Gardens, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Glasnevin_Cemetery\">Glasnevin Cemetery<\/a>, and the adjoining Gravediggers pub where we had our first taste of Guinness on Irish soil.  Tomorrow we start on our clockwise loop around southern Ireland, and we&#8217;re both pretty excited to get out and see the countryside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>England was a lot of fun, if only for a brief visit.  Audrey loved singing with the choir at Canterbury (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yJKXHDQ4i5o#t=600&amp;ab_channel=CanterburyCathedral\">video of her doing a quartet last week<\/a>), I loved all of the museums and castles and cathedrals, and it was neat to see it with friends from back home.  Below are a few more photos from last week, both from Westminster Abbey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-main\" src=\"\/photos\/images\/2023-08-A\/2037-london-westminster-abbey.jpg\" alt=\"Westminster Abbey detail\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">The plants haven&#8217;t been particular about where they decide to set down roots.<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-main\" src=\"\/photos\/images\/2023-08-A\/2042-london-westminster-abbey.jpg\" alt=\"Westminster Abbey\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">Westminster Abbey wasn&#8217;t too shabby.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we jumped across the Irish Sea (technology RULES) and landed in Dublin for the second stage of our trip. We didn&#8217;t plan much in the way of activities since we didn&#8217;t want to risk shenanigans with travel logistics, so the day&#8217;s activities were limited to a trip to the Botanical Gardens, the Glasnevin Cemetery, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/2023\/08\/21\/land-of-guinness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Land of Guinness&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74,75],"class_list":["post-13559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","tag-2023-europe-trip","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13559"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13562,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13559\/revisions\/13562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mountaininterval.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}