Moving on, we are in Dublin now, churches, churches, a castle and a university

We flew to Dublin this morning so we were up early and took the Metro to the airport.  We are staying in downtown Dublin tonight and tomorrow we pick up the motorhome to start our tour.  Today was for touring around Dublin.

The first picture is part of St Patrick's Cathedral.  I have more pictures but I need to work on them before I will post them.

As we were walking around we went pass Ross Road so I got a picture of James.

One of the problems with the churches around here is they are huge.  This is the Christ Church Cathedral below needed three pictures to get the whole thing in and I missed a part on the right end.

We did a tour of the Dublin Castle.  Part of the castle was built on the Viking castle that was built here around 900 ad.  The cement they used was made from of egg shells, horse hair ox blood.  The cement is still holding together.

This is were a lake was when it was a castle, it now has a Celtic knot maze.

This is the Viking part of the castle.

This is the chapel inside the castle.

This is the throne they built for King George IV's visit, the stool underneath they had to make when Queen Victoria came to visit so she could get into the throne unassisted.

We then wondered through Dublin University which was established in the 1500's.