The morning in Dublin seemed to be quite usual; the last stage of her journey began, a railway trip through Ireland from east to west. She was thinking about Boell's story. He had had troubles with changing German marks into Irish pounds and the problem that the train would leave the town earlier than the banks had opened. It sounded incredible for people of today that Heinrich Boell and his family could start the trip on credit. When they arrived in Westport, even the stationmaster knew the fact and when they arrived at their place of vacation, people gave them a book, where to write down the amount of money they had borrowed. The Irish were sure to get their money back.

In Westport, Boell tried to change the money at the bank, but he was told that the real German money had to be sent to Dublin for changing, a four-day-job. The bank manager finally granted him two Irish pounds.

50 years later, modern Europe was on the way to a common currency, called euro, and she was a little bit sad about the fact that the money would not be introduced in real before the following year. But Barbara did not worry about that. She was sure that her credit card would work in the modern Ireland and also in Achill Island, Keel. She would not need a book for taken credits and was not anxious to have to starve like the Boells did -with pockets full of new German (but no Irish) money. Who could know, at that time, that Boell's German money did not come from "East Germany"?

The train ride from Dublin to Westport took about four and a half hours -enough time to get acquainted with other travelling groups. The elder Generation shared the same carriage, George Mueller, the very old man, the 62-year-old lady and her.

When they arrived in Westport, it rained... which, she had been told, was going to happen at least one time a day. They took it with tranquillity and were glad to climb into the bus for Keel on Achill Island. The bus passed the old turnbridge, built in 1888, which connected Achill Island with the mainland. She would have liked to have a longer look at it than possible. The citizens of Keel had been informed about the arrival of a bigger group of travellors from different parts of Europe, who had to do something with the forgotten painter
Brian O'Donnell and his shortly found paintings. She was glad to be at the end of her journey and enjoyed the friendly welcome of the Irish people.

So she was happy to have met so many nice and polite young and elderly persons, expecting the next days and waiting for whatever was going to happen.