Dublin

( Day 1 )

Important points:
5.30 am bad
Aer Lingus good
UCD campus and staff good
UCD computer system bad
Football bad

( Day 2 )

Early mornings bad.
Talks good.
Alcohol bad.

( Day 3 )

Coffee vital for conferences.
Guinness actually drinkable in Ireland

( Day 4 )

I still don't like whiskey.
Teenagers are terrifying.
Chemistry, however, remains interesting.

( Day 5 )

Poster presentation went well.

( Friday in Dublin )

( Saturday in Howth )

( Sunday in Dublin )

Some pictures, hopefully in clickable thumbnail format:

O'Reilly Hall at UCD - I wish I'd got a decent shot of the rest of the campus because there's lots of pretty trees, and a lot of campus is the sort of 60s/70s concrete futurism that I like.

A photo from the walk round Howth Head - I solemnly swear it is just outside of Dublin. Yes, I know how sunny it is. How do you think I got the sunburn? As one of the Germans said, it looks more like California than Ireland.

As proof that I was in Ireland, this is what Christ Church Cathedral looked like the next day -