Dublin: Day Three

On Sunday, we woke up in the morning and went to 10:00 Mass at St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral in Dublin. We were excited about this for two reasons. First, it would be in English, and we hadn't had a Mass in English since the beginning of March, in Geneva. Second, we thought it would be interesting to see how Mass was in Catholic Ireland. Unfortunately, there were very few people who even showed up to the Mass, and the priest said it extremely fast - we were out of the church at 10:29. I don't really know why it was like that.

After Church, we caught a train to Howth, a small city on a peninsula north of Dublin. We ate lunch in a park, and then walked along the cliffs that surround the peninsula. The views were beautiful.

Below is a picture of the cliffs that we walked on.

They were dangerous.

But not too scary.

I did have to convince Caitlin to get this close to the edge for the picture, even sitting down.

During our cliff walk, we saw a plaque commemorating the cliffs of Howth which quoted some famous author, maybe Mark Twain or James Joyce or Emile Zola (I really can't remember at all though; Caitlin says not Mark Twain, and she is probably right), who said that these views were some of the most beautiful in Europe. I believe it! I liked it just as much as the Cliffs of Moher. Those were more impressive, but we could walk around more at Howth. It was definitely very cool to see the eastern and western coasts of Ireland in one weekend.

Pretty!