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November 2012

5pr46u3s Travel | us in ie

Dear Internets,

Since this will undoubtedly be one of many trips across the sea, I figured I would start a travel section to my blog.  Unfortunately I didn’t even think about this until on my way home, so the quality of the content isn’t really up to my own standards… sorry… my bad… I was on vacation… GET OFF MY BACK!  First let me thank dave for taking many of the pictures you will see below, and also kate and sarah for taking some shots with my big clunky cannon.  I would also like to thank the random strangers for taking pictures of the four of us throughout our trip, some of you even made it onto the blog!

Anyways… so we went to Ireland, and it was amazing.  I learned some things while I was there.

Driving in Ireland is crazy, almost all of the roads are about half the width of our roads.  By itself that is a lot to deal with, but add driving on the opposite side of the road, shifting with your left hand, and insane country road speeds and things can get hairy very fast.  Everyone in the car is in a constant state of fear for their lives.  By the end of the trip it didn’t seem nearly as bad.  One thing to note, if you are renting a sweet car like a BMW or similar, you have to be 30.  So yeah, that sucked.  But our diesel Nissan treated us well.

Temple Bar, while fun and full of people, is basically Ireland’s version of a tourist trap, there is no one there that is from Ireland except for the workers.  Go there once, and never return.

Galway, is awesome.  Great town to stay in, and the farmland to the west of it is some of the most beautiful scenery I have seen.  Go here and explore for a while.

Pubs are everywhere.  The key is finding the pubs that are not designed specifically to cater to tourists.  If there is no good food/no food, lots of old men, chances are you are in the right spot.

Old Head – http://goo.gl/maps/ZEpnW – I went to Ireland searching for something, I didn’t know what it was until we went here.  There is a path that goes to the right and the left of the street and each end is a breathtakingly spectacular view.  It is like standing at the edge of the world before it was discovered.  The wind whipping into your face and slightly tugging on you, as if it wanted pull you over the ledge down 300 feet into the stony ocean below.  Go to this spot, and live.  Just make sure you don’t die, I would feel bad.

Ok, so I decided to only post pictures with 1 or more of our group in them, I will put more on Facebook later.  Ladies and gentlemice I give you kate, sarah, dave, and myself…  in IREALND!

 

Thanks for looking,

daniel. kate.

3 Comments

  • MumandDad

    November 12, 2012 at 9:02 pm

    Love the pixs…Dan please be careful for your mums sake in the future…and I love the last pix!!!!

  • aless

    November 13, 2012 at 9:05 am

    the photos are amazing and all of you are awesome. really it was a fake castle? and what is the barney stone picture?

  • Mamf Chelsea

    November 21, 2012 at 8:52 pm

    nice.

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