My family is on vacation, participating in a house-swap with a family from Dublin, Ireland. Today we visited Newgrange, just north of Dublin. An incredible place. A thousand years before the pyramids or Stonehenge, built a sacred mound/burial site/astronomical observatory here.
The stones were transported from dozens of miles away, and the central passageway has stood without collapsing (without even water getting inside!) for all these years. The stone interior is covered by huge amounts of dirt, and so it looks like a grassy, stone-edged acre-sized mound from a distance.
I entered a lottery to win a ticket to come back for the winter solstice, to see the sunrise illuminate the passageway all the way to the center of the mound. Think I'll win?
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