We headed back to the Dublin airport on Wednesday morning to meet those who had traveled on Tuesday night. Around 9 am we headed to our tour bus to begin our adventure. Our pilgrimage is "Walking in the Footsteps of St. Patrick and the Early Irish Saints". Marcus Losack is our guide and has written a couple of books on this subject. We departed to Newgrange.
It's spring in Ireland, but the weather is quite a bit cooler than Jacksonville. Most days it was around 55 degrees. They get a lot of rain there (which is why it's so green!). The countryside is beautiful. Newgrange has Neolithic Passage Tombs dated to 3,200 BC. Our group walked the site and were able to walk inside one of the passage tombs. The history surrounding us is overwhelming. Many of the places we journeyed during this trip were indeed "thin places". A thin place is a place where heaven and earth seem to meet, and God doesn't seem far away...
Our journey continues to Bangor where we will be staying for three nights.
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