Ireland!

It's official - Ireland is the most scenic location of all scenic locations. Around every corner of our 4 day whirlwind tour of the country was a photographic moment. Too many moments, not enough film.

Phebe, Jed, Laura and I hopped the Irish sea Ryan-Air style (no frills no mercy)on Thursday night. We stayed in some random dublin guest house, then escaped completely the next morning off to Glendalough- where there is a loch. it was scenery plus but rainy.

Then we were off to Kilkenny for a kilkenny, and spent the night in Killarney. Phebe and Laura stayed out mega-late talking to irish jerks and a cute old man (apparently). THe next day we almost didn't make it to blarney castle - but in a crystal maze style race through the castle grounds we were the last people of the day to kiss the blarney stone.

THe next day was the glorious dingle peninsula in the world's craziest weather. But we saw the world's most stunning rainbow... no pot of gold however.

We stayed that night in a little hostel in a little town and drank alot of guinness. the beds were hard but the people were nice. That night we were drawn a mud map of how to get the secret route to the cliffs of moher. Mud map is an accurate description. THe next morning we were tramping through sodden paddocks towards the cliff tops. Words cannot describe the amazingness of these cliffs. Stunning does not capture it. We walked along the edge of 240 metre sheer drops. I fell perilously close to a sign saying "EXTREME DANGER".

Then we were off to Galway - and what a fabulous city it was! we proclaimed it to be GALWAY PUB CRAWL and hit 6 pubs around the city. On the way we met some completely insane irish people, crazy eyes and crazy hair and crazy girl and we had one of the best nights of our respective nights. I have developed a new love for guinness- which was realised the next day in dublin where we visited the Guinness storehouse - where they brew the black stuff. It was a fabulous museum with a glorious free pint at the top of dubin's tallest building. Dublin is... very Billy Elliott compared to the rest of Ireland. It was SO beautiful. Unbelievable.

I wish I had written more about this at the time, because now it feels like a recount and .. so much awesome stuff happened!