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Vanquishing Vikings
More travel this morning. Then, in the afternoon, we arrived in Athlone, which is sort of one of those places that tries to make it sound like there's a lot of tourism but there really isn't. So there's about one tour company that operates and like two or three attractions.
That's okay though.
So we're off the tourist beaten path …
Day 31
... dark green to light, black with shells in it, white, sepia and red. They had some lovely stuff there, mainly all god stuff though. From there we went into Galway for lunch. Mist had lifted a bit but it was overcast and bloody cold. We walked around Galway city centre for a while before having lunch at a cafe. Not much to see as the mist still lingered around, so Moichael headed for Dublin, we were meant to have a trip through some nearby mountains but there would ...
Day 30
... you havn't heard of them google it and have a look at some of the photos! The cliffs are nearly 6700 feet high straight down into the Atlantic. They have burrowed out a visitor centre, restaurant, theatre and shops under a hill so it dosn't spoil the raw beauty of the area. From a few hundred yards away all you can see is a couple of windows. You can walk right along the cliff edge behind a rock wall. There is an extremely strong wind blowing off the sea. We went for a walk up to ...
Day Four – Castles and Tombs
... to sit in this hole in the wall. Our tour guide said "get out of there!, it was the Holy Water well!" We now tell stumpy that she has a holy ass! When we got on top, Tyler was freaking out about walking over the walkway on the top floor. We had to coax him across.
Outside, we could walk around and explore the ruin. We found a pillar in one of the corners. Several of us took turns to climb it. Risk Management ...
Capetonian...Tarmonbarry to Leitrim.
... out.
We stopped at Carrick on Shannon ( The Weir of the Marshy Ridge ) at 1330 hrs and hurragh I was able to use my smart card there for a shower.wonders will never cease.
i strolled around town and came across a Farmers Market where I bought a few home made pies,one was venison and the other rabbit.
Again Carrick on Shannon was a town I had never visited.
We heated the ...