- Beginning of the journey in Dublin: Sacha meets Christophe Redondo (" Les SincOp'hat"), a street musician who tells her that Irish people like very much street music: then Sacha goes to the Grand Canal where she meets Mick Kinahan who tells her the story of the Grand Canal built in 1796: they see the studio of Bono, old mills and then they arrived at the Liffey River with its 21 bridges in the town of Dublin (they pass under the Samuel Beckett bridge and Mick explains that he has tried to read Beckett ). Then Sacha meets Rachael, they go to Sweny, a former pharmacy transformed in a lectures club: there lecturers are reading Ulysses and Dubliners of James Joyce: Sacha reads in French some words of "Ulysses" and buys the famous Sweny soap (with lemon scent).They walk through Dublin, see the house of Oscar Wilde and see also the statue of Oscar Wilde in a park (Under the statue this sentence of Oscar Wilde: " Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes").Then they go visit the Trinity College where Rachael is studying and also the Trinity College Library.Theey go later to a literary pub where Colm Zuillingan and Derek are interpreting "Waiting for Godot" of Samuel Beckett.Then Sacha travels to Shannonbridge, she enters in a pub where she meets Cédric , they dance traditional Irish folk dances and on the day they go fishing pikes in the Shannon River and they also visit the monastery of Clonmacnoise founded in 545 by Saint Ciaran.After the visit they go to a pub where a female singer and a guitarist sing Irish folk songs.Later Sacha travels to Bellewstown, a place of horse racing since 1726: the horse are thoroughbred horses and many people make betting about the horses.Then Sacha travels to Northern Ireland to the Ballycastle area: she sees the seaside, crosses a suspension bridge and arrives at the Giant's Causeway (Unesco World Heritage site) with its famous basalt columns). In Belfast Sacha meets Ken, taxi driver who shows her the closed doors between the Catholic and the Protestant neighborhoods , also the Peace Line (a 5,5 meters high wall), they cross a protestant neighborhood with its wall paintings and then a Ctholic neighborhood, they speak with Danny Devenny, a famous Catholic muralist and later they go to the North Belfast Harriers A.C, a school dance for Protestant and Catholic young people, an effort for creating friendships as Jackie White the dance professor explained.Later Sacha meets Jonny, a DJ, they visit the newest cultural center of Belfast, then the "Hyeah" Music center and finally they go to a discotheque where people wear clothes of the fifties. Besides we see zooms about the writer Sinéad Moriarty, about the re-conversion of old churches (The Church bar and Restaurant, the Dublin Mosque), about the gardens in Ireland , about the Irish Cob and the genealogist Helen Kelly and the Shelburn Hotel and about the Titanic Belfast museum, the shipyard where the Titanic was built and the Titanic Memorial Garden in Belfast.—zutterjp48
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