But from my vantage point-the torch the lady on the Hudson holds, never shone brighter.
Thirty-four miles from Belfast, just under double that from Dublin, the border city of Newry is an apt connecting point on the torch's historic journey between two Irish capitals.
At this point, the hydrogen torch is lit using a butane lighter and gas flow is adjusted to ensure a steady flame about 1 cm high.
Peter B. Kaplan, a photographer who captured spectacular views from vertiginous vantage points like the torch of the Statue of Liberty and the masts of the Empire State Building and the original World Trade Center, died on March 19 in Wilmington, Del.
Will historians of humor look back on this movie, perhaps, and mark it as the point at which the torch was passed?
We need to decide on a new starting point this week to ensure the torch relay is ready.
And it would be an intrusion on that delicate but essential point represented by the torch-bearing Lady in New York Harbor, the rights of citizens.
But she was also able to see, by this point, that others would carry the torch she had passed to them: Jane Grigson, Jeremy Round (until his early death in 1989, David had hoped Round would write her biography), Simon Hopkinson.
The castle is now a humble, unkempt, grassy mound – but it could prove strategically advantageous in 2012 as a vantage point from which to watch the torch relay, as it negotiates its way through our historic, narrow streets.
Later generations have refined the model but it was Peel "who held the torch and pointed the way".
