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Crucifix.  St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland.  https://xiomaro.com/event/ireland-photo-retreat/

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The Dubliners - Wild Rover

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Un weekend à Bristol (du côté obscur de la Force)

Le weekend dernier nous sommes partis pour deux jours en Angleterre, tout près du Pays de Galles… à Bristol ! Habitant en Irlande du Sud, indépendante de l’Angleterre, nous avons donc passé le weekend ‘du côté obscur de la Force’, comme les Irlandais aiment tant le rappeler !

Malgré une météo des plus ronchonnes (de la pluie, de la pluie et pour changer… de la pluie !), l’amoureux et moi avons découvert cette ville haute en couleurs. Vous nous suivez ?

Samedi 20 Janvier

Nous sommes arrivés très tôt, vers 7h30, à l’aéroport. Là, surprise, l’aéroport est en fait très à l’extérieur de la ville. Une demi-heure plus tard, nous voilà tout frais, près à découvrir cette ville. Notre programme de la matinée : visite de l’université de Bristol, de la Cabot Tower et de la cathédrale. Manque de chance, la tour était en rénovation ce jour-là, mais cela ne nous a pas empêché de pouvoir profiter d’une vue magnifique. Manque de chance numéro 2 : il y avait un brouillard dingue. Malgré cela, la vue était quand même bien sympa.

L’après-midi nous avons découvert le port, les quais (totalement piétons !) et nous nous sommes promenés dans le centre-ville ainsi que dans le grand centre commercial, Cabot Circus.

Nous sommes aussi entrés chez Bluebird Tea & Co. Il s’agit d’un atelier de mixologie du thé, qui produit ses propres thés aux saveurs toutes plus alléchantes les unes que les autres. Vous pouvez y entrer et leur faire confiance entièrement. Pour ma part, amatrice de thés verts et plutôt sucrés, sur des notes de fruits rouges, la vendeuse m’a conseillée tout de suite le « Blue Raspberry », mélange de framboise, violette et bleuet. Résultat ? J’ai été tellement conquise que je suis repartie avec du thé. Les violettes sont entières, les framboises généreuses… What else ? Bonus de l’endroit : vous pouvez tout de suite goûter le thé de votre choix avant de l’acheter, puisque la boutique dispose d’un petit coin cozy et peut vous servir tous les thés disponibles dans la boutique. Et si vous aimez vraiment beaucoup leurs thés, vous pouvez aussi commander sur leur site internet !

Dimanche 21 Janvier

Malgré la pluie (qui nous a quand même trempés complètement), nous sommes allés à pied jusqu’au pont de Bristol, qui s’appelle Clifton Suspension Bridge. La vue plongeante (toujours malgré le brouillard) est assez impressionnante : tenez bien vos téléphones, sinon vous ne les reverrez jamais !

Nous sommes ensuite retournés tranquillement à l’aéroport pour rentrer chez nous en début de soirée.

A refaire ? Pas pour un weekend uniquement à Bristol, mais si on va à Cardiff par exemple (qui n’est vraiment pas très loin), je pense qu’on reviendra y faire un tour. Ce n’est pas qu’on a pas aimé cette ville, mais plutôt qu’elle reste tout de même assez petite (comparé à Londres, Dublin ou Bordeaux par exemple).

Un Airbnb à recommander ? Foncez chez Tarik. La chambre est dans le centre-ville (à 10 minutes à pied de Cabot Circus) et le matelas est dingue. Autre bon point : il y a des volets (chose disparue pour nous depuis le mois de septembre !) et une cuisine.

Pour voir ce que nous avons fait à Bristol, je vous laisse consulter la carte de ce que nous avons visité, juste ici !

  Pour plus d’informations :

Airbnb > 42€ / nuit. A réserver ici.

Bluebird Tea & Co > 73, Park Street, Bristol. Commande possible sur le site internet ici. Référence du thé que j’ai choisi: « Blue Raspberry» (thé vert framboise et violette). La couleur au moment de l’infusion est un bleu très sombre et si vous ajoutez quelques gouttes de citron, le thé devient tout rose. Magie garantie !

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Dublin's New Waterpark Set To Open Next Weekend

Dublin’s New Waterpark Set To Open Next Weekend

A long-delayed new $43 million waterpark will open in Dublin on Saturday May 27 and here’s a look inside the place:

The Wave will be our new favorite water park. Opens next weekend.

A post shared by Oscar (@carjunky) on May 19, 2017 at 8:35pm PDT

An open house was held on Friday May 19th to give local residents a preview of the place and we got a good look at it.

#OpenHouse tonight…

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our mixtape drops next week xo

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The Naturalists Companion containing drawings with suitable descriptions of a vast variety of Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Serpent and Insects; & accurately copied either from Living Animals or from the stuffed Specimens in the Museums of the College and Dublin Society, to which is added drawings of several antiquities, natural productions &c containd in those Museums -- illustrated manuscript by Kenelm Henry Digby. p. 170 -- A Curious Antique Map of Dublin for the year 1610 [copy of map published by John Speed] & p. 170 -- Antient Irish instrument for drawing teeth. Frontispiece: [Untitled - Peaceable Kingdom - landscape with birds and animals]. p. 290 -- The Kanguroo, copied from a living animal, exhibited in Dublin.

Date of work:  1810-1817 (dated before Digby left Dublin for Trinity College, Cambridge).

Kenelm Henry Digby was born in Ireland in 1800 to a prominent Protestant family, and died in London in 1880, his home for most of his later life. He attended Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took a B.A. in 1819. At Cambridge he converted to Catholicism, and devoted the rest of his life to literature and writing, with a particular interest in Catholic theology and medieval antiquarianism. His work on the medieval period, Mores Catholic, or Ages of Faith, ran to eleven volumes (1831-1840) and provided an encyclopedic account of medieval life from a Catholic viewpoint. He was considered a moderately important writer during his own lifetime -- see Dictionary of National Biography; The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1908.

The manuscript describes and illustrates a variety of animals, fish, insects, natural and ethnographic productions and antiquities from England, Ireland, India, Spain, Africa, China, America, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. It includes a number of Australian animals, such as the kangaroo, and illustrations of Pacific artifacts collected on Captain James Cooks second and third voyages held by the Dublin Society and the Trinity College Museum. 

It seems that Digby composed the text himself although much of its content is drawn from published authorities. He cites numerous standard reference sources such as George Buffon's "Natural History". The text, which concentrates mainly on animals (about 300 of the illustrations are natural history) rather than ethnographic or antiquarian specimens, is largely anecdotal. He is not interested in the anatomy or physiology of the animals he describes, and nor does he attempt to position them within a classification scheme. He uses popular rather than scientific names. It is significant to note that living Australian natural history specimens had reached Dublin by the early 1810s as part, it appears, of a commercial menagerie.

The Pacific artifacts illustrated in "The Naturalists Companion" were held in both the museums of Trinity College, Dublin the Dublin Society. The artifacts were probably collected on Captain James Cooks Second and Third Voyages. "The Dress of a Chief Mourner, from Otaheite" (page 221), for instance, was collected on Cook's Second voyage by surgeon James Patten, who settled in Dublin immediately after his return. He gave his collections to Trinity College in 1777, which were latter transferred to the National Museum of Ireland. The dress itself was presented by the National Museum to the Bishop Museum in Hawaii in 1971, and was exhibited in the Bishop's 1978 exhibition "Artificial Curiosities. An exposition of Native Manufactures" and is illustrated at fig. 211. Other material probably came from Captain James King, of the Third Voyage's Resolution (see J.D. Freeman, The Polynesian Collection of Trinity College, Dublin and the National Museum of Ireland, "Journal of the Polynesian Society", vol. 58, 1948 p.1-18). Other Pacific artifacts, such as "Sandwich Island God" (page 3) and "A knife of the Sandwich Islands" (p.213), were in the Museum of the Dublin Society, although how they came into the possession of that Society is not known. It was transferred to the National Museum of Ireland, along with much of the Society's collection in 1880. The original was exhibited at the Bishop Museums (Honolulu) 1979 exhibition "Eleven Gods Assembled", curated by Dr Adrienne Kaeppler.

"The Naturalists Companion" is an apparently random compendium of natural history, ethnographic and antiquarian specimens. Its lack of obvious taxonomy indeed its unusual juxtapositions (page 5, for example, depicts a Non Pareil Parrot, a Pied Butcherbird and a Hooka Pipe) illustrates a then common approach to the description of the natural world: an encyclopedic record without an obvious system or organising principal. "The Naturalists Companion" reflects the often haphazard composition of late eighteenth century and early nineteenth century European museums. Comparisons with published catalogues from such museums, such as the Leverian Museum or William Bullocks Museum shows how close Digby's manuscript was in conception to contemporary museums -- see for example William Bullock, "A Companion to the London Museum and Pantherion", 1813 (Mitchell Library call no. 507/B) or King & Lochee, "Catalogue of the Leverian Museum", 1806 (Mitchell Library call no. 570.7/L).

This encyclopedic approach reflected Digby's belief, shared by the majority of his contemporaries, that the diversity and complexity of nature was positive proof of the existence of a divine Creator. As Digby wrote in "The Naturalists Companion" his intention was to highlight to all "but the most insensible mind wonder at the formation and the various properties, and dispositions of the Brute Creation" (p.453).