Day 120, 1 November 2012, Dublin - the Natural History Museum. Completely by accident. Now we set out with all good intention of looking at 300 year old dead bodies "bog bodies" in the Archeology museum. These are miracles caused by the sphagnum moss on the bogs which creates a completely inert environment - no oxygen, no bacteria. Bodies are preserved to the extent that someone found a body a few years back and called the police thinking the victim was murdered. And she may well have been - 300+ years ago. In any event, missed a turn because we were concentrating on how COLD it was. So we ended up a block away at the Natural History museum and the charming fellow at the desk convinced us to have a look, if for no other reason than the laughing hedgehog on the second level. Wow. This museum was created during the heyday of taxidermy - and whilst we know it's not a good thing to run around shooting tigers and stuffing them these days, all the specimens are old - and we got to see things we've never had a chance to see in the flesh. Like the now extinct Giant Deer of Ireland. And, believe it or not, an entire cabinet of Australian specimens - including one of the few examples in the world of the Tasmanian Tiger (long extinct). We saw giraffes and zebras (which took us right back to our African adventures) and finally a Black Rhino (which we never saw in Africa). I even got to scratch something off my bucket list - I saw a Puffin (remember none were around the Cliffs of Moher the other day). Obviously dead. Truly stuffed. But still a Puffin. Having seen all manner of species - foxes, badgers, bears - polar and grizzly, bison and boar we left our accidental museum very happy indeed. Spent the next few hours in a Dublin hair salon... Big changes on the way - stay tuned!