Brennan's Yard Hotel Galway
Lower Merchants Road Galway, County Galway, Western Ireland, Ireland
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Cliffs of Moher... the cliffs of insanity!!!
... Hear the Celtic legends surrounding the ancient burial tombs, or dolmens. Our stop for the night is Galway, Ireland’s cultural capital and festival city.
I am excited to visit the Cliffs of Moher... our tour guide has been talking about them a lot for the past few ...
Hen Parties and Rainbow Sheep
... were sheep....everywhere! Each herd had different colored slashes of spray-paint on them. They looked liked a leprechaun had gotten a hold of them and tossed them through a rainbow. BTW, the Irish seem to fully embrace the leprechaun/pot of gold at the end of the rainbow stereotype. After finally making our way back to our b&b, we are totally exhausted. No Guinness tonight, I suppose. Tomorrow, more driving awaits us. At least our little diesel rental has good gas ...
Galway Girl
... adds up to about $300 so far. But, for some reason this day was different. I didn't get sick on the bus or the ferry...it must have been that prayer I said the entire bus ride and ferry ride to the island and back! :) wooohhh, it was an amazing start to what proceeded to be an amazing day!
The weather on the island could not have been more PERFECT. I rented a bike and enjoyed a day of sun and happiness by myself. At first I found it ...
Finally here!
I finally made it to Galway!! It only took a couple hours wait in Boston, 6 hour flight, 2 hour immigration wait, and a 6 hour wait in the lobby followed by an hour and half bus ride to Galway on a small and smelly bus with 18 other strangers who will eventually become my family for my time in Ireland. When we got ...
Small Dirt Road
To get to Letterfrack, a small farm village of few houses in South Western Ireland, we had to pass from Dublin in the East through Joyce Country in the West. Our air-conditioning was broken so we kept the windows down. Irish wind tugged at our hair and brought smells of grass, earth, and sheep. I had never felt Irish much before, as someone who was brought up very much by my Cuban grandmother, but something about this place drew from me that ...


