I have quickly been losing interest and motivation in writing to you all this blog. Over the past month I have been travelling lightly both with API and friends.
A few weeks ago API brought us through East Co. Clare and through Bunratty Castle. It was a pretty cold day and overall it was a nice experience. Wish we could have had longer than an hour at the castle, but we had a full day planned. We had lunch across the street and I got the most amazing brownie sundae! So good...Afterwards we were brought to an old cemetery with a church/ruins. By then it was EXTREMELY cold out and everyone was kind of miserable. We drove back to Menlo at the end of the day and I went straight to bed.
2 weeks ago, myself and some friends went to Edinburgh Scotland for a short weekend. We took the bus to Dublin and then a flight across the pond. It took almost the whole day to get to our hostel. The hostel was nice, kind of small but met some great people. We did 2 ghost tours both nights. First one we went underground through endinburgh's underground city where the poor lived. The lights went out and a man dressed in costume jumped out at us, I screamed and ran away. The 2nd night, we went through a graveyard tour and went through a hill where over a 1000 bodies are buried in unmarked pile-graves. GROSS! We then went into a tomb where supposedly a poltergeist lives (our friend had unexplainable scratches on her!) Of course, another person dressed in costume jumped out at us and yes, I screamed again!
During the day in Scotland we walked around and saw the sites, where JKRowling wrote her first harry potter book. We went to the museum and walked through edinburgh castle; such a cool place! The last day was filled with travelling back to galway, where I of course went to bed! Such a fun/tiring/adventure weekend! Wish we could have stayed longer and done the loch ness/highlands tours.
All in all the time here has been flying! We haven't been able to book anymore out of the country trips because hostel and airline prices shot up. It was going to be too stressful to fly around and plan things to do anyways.
Next weekend Cait and I are going to Cork for the weekend. We're taking a bus there and spending the day sight-seeing. The next day we booked a tourbus to take us through the surrounding area and to the Blarney Castle where we can kiss the stone for luck! The weekend after Cork we're looking at going to northern ireland to Belfast and staying in the same hostel company and doing another tourbus through them as well!
See everyone a 4 weeks!! Just in time for Christmas =]
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