Best Western Bracken Court Hotel Balbriggan

Again we got a pretty early start as we wanted to make the 8.30am ferry to Valentia Island. Again, so glad we did, the mornings are really lovely. I can't get over how lush the countryside is and I love the patchwork look of the paddocks. The fact that there are still stone walls dividing the paddocks is amazing and makes it look so pretty.
The 20mins Ferry ride brought us to Valentia Island, which had lots of small roads, but not much traffic around that early in the morning so ...

... has shown us a few different places and basically brings us some much needed sanity by having someone to catch up with and chat to. Lucky for all of us that we all get along really well! We were looking at doing A LOT of travelling before coming to Australia, but reality came to bite us on the bum and made us realise that it just was not a realistic goal to have. So we have scaled it right back and this is what we have planed...: 11th (ish ...

... and shopping. The Temple Bar is both a pub and the name of the area around it. There are all kinds of shops and restaurants and musicians there. It's kind of to Dublin what Pike Place is to Seattle. Dad and I went into some shops and did the last of our Ireland shopping and and went to a place called Thunder Road for dinner. We are back now and are getting ready for bed. Only a couple of days left in Europe. Tomrrow on to London.

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... go to the south bank of river Liffey and... WOW!! We are in Temple Bar!! for me the best part of Dublin city. It's awesome with its cobbled streets, coloured facades, lots of traditional pubs and restaurants, weird shops... it's totally amazing! Later we arrive at Grafton Street, a wide pedestrian street full of luxurious shops and some moderate-priced too. There we take a photo with arch-known Molly Malone ...

... streets of Dublin. We walked around aimlessly exploring the city; we had lunch at a little café off the stony streets, and could barely keep our eyes open. After lunch we somehow made it to the Guinness brewery after hours of walking. Exhausted We headed back to the hostel and crashed for the night.. A big day a head was approaching so we called it a night. The next day we went to a Castle. People resided in the castle till about 1960 until they ...

... turns even more magical...on with the Munster jersey on Saturday for the Munster vs Toulouse Heineken cup final in Cardiff and yes thats right they won, what more would you want....!!!Flew to London Heathrow early Monday and onto San Fran...got there but there was no time for sleep...the family had other plans when i met them!

... off in the mountainous town of Dalat, surrounded by lakes, waterfalls and forests. We'll rent a horse for the day and explore the surroundings of this area of southern Vietnam. From Dalat we'll go back to the south east coast to Na Trang, a party town with everything from booze cruises to snorkeling in the reefs to the Giant Seated Buddha and the Long Son Pagoda, we'll probably spend a few days here. Another place we'll probaby spend a few ...

... they have enough energy to actually see anything... or will they merely drown their sorrows in a couple of pints of Guinness? Read on to find out... HE SAID: more to come... SHE SAID: Another cute town, great accents, and a nice time seeing Arran and meeting his girlfriend Orla! ...more to come... ...

... meant for irish people and you're suposed to be fluent in the language (which is a crazy tongue by the way). In the Irish pub, it was quite obvious that Vanessa and I did not speak Irish, a strange situation to be a minority as such. There were flyers around with poems and sayings like "An Ghaeilge Abu" (which was translated for me to mean 'go irish language go'). We met up with more people throughout the night and toured around Dublin. Near the end of the ...