We drove to Dublin today and checked into a hotel called the Bewley Hotel. After we put our bags in our room, we went exploring in central Dublin. We had tea and scones there. Then we walked around and went to a pub where my mom had a Guinness and they played Irish music.

The next morning we went into Dublin again and saw The Book of Kells. It’s a very, very old book that has writings and drawings done by monks over a thousand years ago. They used ink stains from fruits and vegetables and stones like lapis lazuli (which is blue) to make the colors in the drawings. They added gold leaf to the drawings to give them some kick. One thing I learned was that was when they decorated a letter in a very special way, they never used that pattern again in the book. The next time they made that letter, they used another pattern.

We left the library where we saw the Book of Kells and went to the aiport. We got on our plane which was Aer Lingus (it had shamrock on the tail and the plane was green). We flew on a Airbus 320 airplane which is three seats on one side and three seats on the other side. We flew to Budapest, Hungary. We got in during the night and a man was waiting for us to take us to the house where we stayed.