After visiting several sporting goods and camping stores (as well as several more music shops) I finally found a pair of light-weight gloves at an army surplus store. With all the young people traveling from town-to-town and hostel-to-hostel carrying backpacks and sleeping bags, one would think that gloves would be readily available. But I guess not.
After lunch I went to the Irish National Gallery that is exhibiting 10 of Leonardo DaVinci's drawings. Chris snuck off campus and came to join me. The exhibit is free to the public. The details in DaVinci's drawings are absolutely incredible. His drawings as well as his creativity and genius are really what it means to be a "Renaissance Man." (Unfortunately, photographs of DaVinci's work was not allowed so I cannot include any here.)
After viewing the DaVinci's work, we took the opportunity to see some of the other artwork housed in the Gallery including:
Pablo Picasso,
John Singer Sargent, and
Then it was back ro Trinity College Dublin for a reception for the launching of a new Journal of Sociolinguistics. There were several linguists in attendance as well as a number of graduate students. Wine was provided. 🍷
When it was over, Chris, Lorraine, and I went out for a quick pint of a beer that came from a micro-brewery in County Cork, Ireland. So for those of you wondering, people do drink beer other than Guinness around here. 🍺
That's it for today. Time for bed. 😴💤
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