Winter Solstice Shortest day of the year (21st Dec) , Has Anybody Experience Newgrange Sunrise Alignment in Person live , was it worth the trip?

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  3. Maybe my name is should and I am from known better. I will translate it to the third person.

    Stupid should of known better, wishing you came a week earlier is a lesson to come back in mid December next year

  4. I was there with one of my kids about 12/13 years ago. It’s not very impressive when the light comes in, the Earth is not aligned the same anymore so the light doesn’t fill the tomb or reach the back, but the whole experience was very well organised. It’s well worth a visit. We entered the lottery for it and won tickets to see it on the 21st. Entry forms are in the visitor centre. If you bring some friends they were letting them into the tomb after the ticket holders were finished. It snowed heavily the year we went and It’s a very early start, before 6am, and we had to make it through the snow but we enjoyed it still. The solstice lasts about 4 days so you have a good chance of winning one of them. The 21st isn’t always the best day to get. The year i went some of the other days were overcast so the sun never broke through, we were lucky on the day we got because there wasn’t a cloud in the sky.

  5. I won the lottery for it in 2014, it was a cool experience. The day was pretty overcast so not much light came in, but it felt pretty special to know that we were doing the same thing in the same place as folks thousands of years ago.

  6. I haven’t but heard its an amazing experience.

    I recreated it at home in the bedroom by leaving the curtain open just a smidge when the sun was rising. Truly magnificent

  7. I was there years ago in the chamber the sun light was on the ground its ment to light up the wall but the Earth has moved a few degrees in 5000 years .Had a dream that night of a grey stone with wave lines it was Infinity could not be measured no top or bottom .

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