Dublin, which is exceedingly kind to pedestrians, should be iconic. And our capital. It has everything: rivers, the sea, several universities,the largest enclosed park in Europe/the world, a semi-efficient postal service, a post office which is on the tourist trail...

'tis also equipped with very nice Classicists, an indecent number of post-graduate students and a brilliant statue of Wilde with a green carnation. And the Luas! Which nearly ran us over.

The forum was brilliant, as was Trinity, and I have now decided that (based on experience) 50% of Nobel Laureates are nice. And I met one of those pre-Nobel prize for literature, so it may make you nice. Become Nobel laureates! Eason's will proclaim that you were one an hundred years after your birth!

Also failed to hide from cathedrals, (both of them) took photographs and was rather amazed by Marina Carr's loveliness and dress sense, even though she is wrong about the Greek view of death. Very wrong.

And of course, we visited the wonderful "Epicurean Food Hall", which is Epicurean in both senses. (Wow!) Horace would have approved. And saw Wilde's house(s).