English Cultural Trip ! ! !

Yesterday we headed off to Dublin City Centre to visit the Yeats' museuem, Gallery and the Bog Bodies Exhibition. We 1st headed to the Yeats's Museum. this museum was very intereting. Here on displays were strands of his hair, his diaries, various images including his wife. He had unrequited love. This means love that is not returned. We also learned that for years he thought his lovers child was his niece ! This was a very cultural exhibition :) Next was the trip to the National Museum to the Bog Bodies. In fact we did not only see the bodies but saw primary source artefacts that were found in the bogs for example torcs which are believed to be used as necklaces, a long boat which is believed to be used during thre Stone Age ! Although Ihave visited this exhibition before Iwas still entruiged by it ! The Bog Bodies were so lifelike, infact real !! Their skin looked like leather! It was sick but cool. Their was even clumps of hair and the wrinkles on their hands were scary! How do they survive that long? :L For Lunch we went to Mc Donalds and I got a Mc Flurry.... mhmmn. We talked for a while. In total we had an hour for lunch which was good :) So we looked around the shops for a while :L The final trip of the day was to the National Art Gallery :) First we saw some of Jack Yeats' paintings. We learned that he started off painting real life drawings but then went through a stage of impresionist paintings for the final years of his life. These are interesting paintings they express your feelings and emotions through art :) The painting we saw was his feelings towards war ! We then went to the other side of the Museum and saw paintings by various other artists ! It was a very beneficial day and I really learned a lot. I might even visit the National Gallery some time in the future to see more paintings 1! Our tuor guide said it is best to spend an hour observing some paintings and to return later to see the rest :) :L