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IRELAND: TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN
July 12, 2024Bob and I like to visit famous universities. We've been to most of the biggies in the United States (Think Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Columbia, etc.), and we've been to a few...
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IRELAND, DUBLIN'S GRAFTON STREET: DAVEY BYRNE'S PUB AND BEWLEY'S CAFE AND...
July 12, 2024Many cities have "their street," the one that is associated with only that city and uniquely theirs--Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, 5th Avenue in New York City, Champs-Élysées in Paris,...
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IRELAND, DUBLIN: THE NATIONAL GALLERY
July 12, 2024Our next stop was the National Gallery of Ireland, located in Merrion Square, which is in walking distance of Grafton Street. Opened in 1864, the museum has quite an extensive collection...
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IRELAND, DUBLIN: THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND, THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF...
July 12, 2024The National Library of Ireland is somewhat like our Library of Congress in the United States, albeit much, much smaller--12 million items as compared to the US Library of Congress's 167...
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IRELAND, DUBLIN: IRISH WRITERS WALKING TOUR, PART I (OSCAR WILDE SITES, ST....
July 13, 2024On our last full day in Ireland including an Irish Writers Literary Walking Tour that Bob had booked in advance with Tours by Locals. We highly recommend our guide, Adam Ladd, who was...
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IRELAND, DUBLIN: IRISH WRITERS WALKING TOUR, PART II (ST. PATRICK'S CATHEDRAL...
July 13, 2024After lunch we headed to St. Patrick's Park, where a church has stood for over 1300 years. Today the church on that spot is known as St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin (there are a bazillion...
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IRELAND, DUBLIN: IRISH WRITERS WALKING TOUR, PART III (CHRIST CHURCH...
July 13, 2024The next park of our walking tour was not particularly literary, but it was very interesting. Having just toured the largest Protestant cathedral in Dublin, St. Patrick's Cathedral, we...
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INDIA, DECEMBER 2025: LAX TO GUWAHATI
December 14-16, 2024 We've been wanting to go to India for a while, but the timing never worked out. A few years ago it was not our year to have everyone home for Christmas, and I made the casual...
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INDIA: GUWAHATI - MAA KAMAKHYA AND TIRUPATI BALAJI TEMPLES
December 16, 2024Our traveling companions were not going to arrive until late in the evening, so we had planned a tour of some of the religious sites in Guwahati, the largest city in the Indian state...
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INDIA: GUWAHATI TO KAZIRANGA NATIONAL PARK
December 17, 2024We were up at 6:00 AM, ignoring both the 12.5 hour time difference between where we were and California and our 40 hours of travel, and were down at the extensive and excellent...
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INDIA: KAZIRANGA NATIONAL PARK, DAY 1
December 17, 2024As I see it, there are five reasons to visit Kaziranga National Park: 1) It has two-thirds of the WORLD'S POPULATION of one-horned rhinos, a vulnerable species; 2) It is a Tiger...
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INDIA: KAZIRANGA NATIONAL PARK, DAY 2
December 18, 2024We got off early in the morning and were welcomed to the Jeep by hot water bottles for our laps/feet and a nice warm blanket. There were also hot water bottles in our beds at night....
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INDIA: KAZIRANGA NATIONAL PARK, DAY 3
December 19, 2024Third day, fourth safari drive, fourth area of the national park. You'll notice that this is a shorter post. By now, we had seen most of the animals we were going to see and the...
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INDIA: KAZIRANGA NATIONAL PARK, DAY 4
December 20, 2024On our last day at Kaziranga National Park, Chris, Stan, and I needed a break from driving around in the Jeep and elected to take a boat ride on the Brahmaputra River while Bob went...
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INDIA: RETURN TO DELHI AND SUNDAY CHURCH IN AN LDS WARD
December 21-22, 2024Bob left early in the morning for one more birding trip with Bablu while the rest of us enjoyed a slower morning with time to pack and eat breakfast. A van and driver picked us up...
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INDIA, DELHI: HUMAYUN'S TOMB
December 22, 2024After church we got on the road for a city tour of New Delhi. I can't say this enough, but the traffic is CRAZY in the city. There is no respect for lanes, and there is lots of...
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INDIA, DELHI: QUTB MINAR COMPLEX AND FUN TIMES IN THE IMPERIAL HOTEL
December 22, 2025I admit that I am obsessed with the traffic in India. Here's yet another post beginning with traffic footage. This one shows us trying to cross the street on foot. DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS...
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INDIA, "OLD" DELHI: JAMA MASJID (MOSQUE)
December 23, 2024Just a note about the weather in Delhi. The temperatures were generally quite pleasant, with highs in the 60s and low 70s, but the air quality was horrific. These are screen shots...
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INDIA, OLD DELHI: CHANDNI CHOWK MARKET
December 23, 2025Remember how I said you shouldn't drive as a tourist in India? You shouldn't cross the street by yourself either. There are no crosswalks or traffic lights and crossing takes a...
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INDIA, OLD DELHI: FAITH TOUR
December 23, 2025 We had scheduled a tour called "Food and Faith." We had done the food part (see previous post), and so now it was time for the faith part.We began with this typical street...
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INDIA, DELHI: GURDWARA BANGLA SAHIB SIKH TEMPLE, THE GANDHI MEMORIAL AT RAJ...
December 23, 2025We had spent the morning with a new guide on our Food and Faith Tour, and he was okay, but he spoke way too fast and his accent was hard for us to understand. We were very happy to...
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INDIA, VARANASI: WALKING TOUR
December 24, 2025We arrived in Varanasi on a flight from Delhi at about noon. Compared to Delhi, Varanasi has a small airport, but it was still very interesting. I have no idea what this tree...
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INDIA, VARANASI: CHRISTMAS EVE MASS AT ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL
December 24, 2025I wasn't too thrilled about spending Christmas in a non-Christian country, but in the end I think it was a good experience. We enjoyed our Sunday service in an LDS Ward, and we had...
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INDIA, VARANASI: THE SACRED GANGES AND THE GHATS
December 25, 2024I love Christmas and all the traditions and food and music that go along with it, and I must confess that I was not all that excited to spend my Christmas Day 2024 in Varanasi looking...
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INDIA, VARANASI: WEAVING FACTORY, MORE CITY WALKING, AND THE GHATS AT NIGHT
December 25, 2024India is famous for its textiles, particularly its silk, and Varanasi is known as one of the chief and best producers of silk in India. If we had known that, we may have purchased...
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