Beginning of the journey in Dublin: Philippe takes the Grand Hibernian luxury train to Cork and Galway: bar, dining room, pleasant sleeping cabin and pleasant talk with the employees.Now Philippe is in Connemara, a region with wet soils (peat): he meets a sheep breeder who will shear his sheep(Scottish black face breed).Then train from Ballinasloe to Kilkenny, talk about the elves(leprechauns) and the traditions in Ireland.Then meeting with a female druid, ceremony of the Celtic summer (looking for the harmony with the nature).Then from Tralee to Mallow a travel in a train with the oldest steam locomotive of Ireland.Philippe speaks with the locomotive engineer and also with the passengers, locomotive fans.Return to Dublin: Trinity College: date with Mr.Joseph who shows him the Library with its ladders: a very old book of 1543 about human anatomy.Then Philippe travels from Dublin to Belfast.There Philippe takes a taxi and begins to speak with the taxi driver about the history of Northern Ireland (peace agreement in 1998): then the taxi driver shows him the metallic doors which are closed every night at 10 pm , doors between the Catholic neighborhoods and the Protestant neighborhoods.
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