Coming Home

Well friends, my journey is coming to an end.  We are in Dublin right now and we decided to by pass England, because it is so expensive, and just fly home a little early.  In Dublin, we have been staying with our new friends Omar and Hedi.  They are great people- very nice and really Irish.

It has been a crazy trip since my last post in the Netherlands.  We ended up taking a train south to Belgium and stayed in a little medieval town by the name of Brogue.  Brogue is a very beautiful place with amazing sites.  It's really small so you can walk around it in  a fairly short time.

For there we went even further south to stay at Taize, a monastery in the south of France.  Taize was an amazing experience for me.  I had been there before, around 4 years ago, but much has chance in that short time.  We were at Taize for about 2 and a 1/2 weeks, one of the weeks be spent in complete silence.  

After that, we went north to Paris and meet up with some friends from Michigan.  We spent a few days in Paris seeing the sights- my favorite being the Louvre by far.

After Paris we headed over to Northern Ireland to a little town outside of Belfast called Kilkeel.  My friend Megan is staying here doing youth ministry.  Kilkeel is a lovely town full of very nice people. 

And now, we are currently in Dublin searching for Bono.  

All is well with me.  This trip has been such a great trip of discovery that is hard to communicate with words.  I would love to share when I get back.  We are flying home this Tuesday and should be in Grand Rapids Tuesday night.