It's a rainy day and I just can't stay in my home. I'm not working today so I decide to go out. Dublin has lots of thing to be discovered by me and I just can't wait to do it. I choose to visit the Phoenix Park and I choose well because I just feel that I need to walk and take a big fresh breath. I set my GPS to Phoenix Park and I start to walk to the edge of freedom and nature luxury. Everything is wet around me but this makes the things more special.
The wet leafs from the ground and the smell of wet soil remembers me of the woods from my country, from childhood. I just expect to see mushrooms but instead I see lots of squirrels digging to hide some nuts.
The fresh air is filling my lungs while I relax my mind and delight my eyes with this beautiful landscape. There are lots of alleys and I just choose to go in a direction. It was a good decision because I found this place.
I really don't know what is it but it captivate my attention.
I start to walk again in the same direction and in my way I meet lots of people but i forget about them because I am surrounded by nature. This green luxury is the house for lots of birds and animals. I can hear the rain drops hitting the leafs and the trills of birds. These two in combination gives a good calming melody not only for soul but for brain too. I start to ask myself why is this park called "Phoenix Park", but the answer is founded when I get here:
The symbol of the park the Phoenix bird.
As you enter into the park you can see an very big obelisk, which I found later that is the greatest from Europe. It is called Wellington Testimonial and it has a interesting story. The structure has 62 meters tall.The construction started in 1817 but in 1820 it ran out of funds and only in 1861 it was opened to the public. It has 4 bronze plaques, 3 with pictorial representing the career of Wellington and 1 with a inscription :
"Asia and Europe, saved by thee, proclaim
Invincible in war thy deathless name,
Now round thy brow the civic oak we twine
That every earthly glory may be thine."
