Carna Bay Hotel Connemara

... 30th.<br><br>Next I'll spend 3 weeks in New Zealand, mostly on the South Island, and fly from Auckland to LA on May 22nd. <br><br>After a final 3 weeks in America I will fly from New York to London on June 17th.<br><br>I have bought and scrounged everything I need to take, and I have typed up more notes than I can handle. I'm very excited to finally be so close to going, after years of planning and hoping!! <br><br>My next post will be from India!!!<br>

... to the highest edge. <br><br>Of course, our group would be determined to cross this edge and we marched our way along the Atlantic in a way that I have never walked the shore before. The boys were more determined to hike further, so us girls stayed behind to capture the moment. Little did we know they had bigger plans to depants and show the world. I guess it was for the best we stayed back. <br><br>Galway was a different ...

... pie, which has mashed potatoes layered on top of steamed corn, carrots, potato pieces and peas. It was realllllly good....though I'm sure it was terribly unhealthy. Oh well.<br><br>After dinner, a few people in our group decided that they wanted to try to find a pub crawl. We all went along to check out what deal they were going for. The one they ended up deciding on was one where you started with an all-the-beer-you-can-drink-in ...

Well.... the craic is mighty in Galway... WOW! (For those somewhat confused by my references to a bum, Craic in Gaelic is loosley translated to 'fun' - it gets dropped into regular conversation 'where's the craic' 'let's find the craic' etc etc. Anyway, back onto the day, then we'll talk Galway<br><br>So another early start from the Hostel of hell. The scenery really opened up today and it was just stunning. We went up to an Ancient fort with stunning views as far as the eye could see ...

... you could really experience the cliffs. There were cattle and sheep on one side and the sheer cliffs on the other... it really made me feel like I was a part of nature and Ireland as a whole. Look through some of the pictures to see what Im talking about. Overall it was a fantastic trip and with the group rate we got for bringing like 12 kids it only ended up costing like 20 euro the entire day and I need all the budget saving trips that I can get!<br>

Hey, this is my first entry, i didn't want to sign up and leave a blank account, so i'm firing up a diary from my latest trip to the Aran Islands (Inis Mór is the one i go to) The Aran Islands are a second home for me, my getaway when the city gets to much for me, my most recent trip was back in June, on a wonderful week when the sun shone every day (in Ireland thats a good achievement)<br><br>Usual story, the two lads on the **** again, (I'm going over to ...

... in your ticket stub for a pint of guinness and looked out windows to an amazing view of dublin..following the guinness factory we still had 2 hours until we could go take naps at the hostile. we spent the afternoon at the park at trinity college. we checked into our hostiles and i immediately went up to my room where I was introduced to my roommates. ( we booked our hostile tickets in 2 so that we wouldn't be completely alone) enter: ricardo and esteban the 2 spaniards ...

... puking all over the bathroom. That set us back about an hour and a half. Other than that, the flight was pretty nice. I had an entire row, that is 3 seats, to myself and I had a layover in Newark, which meant that I got fly over new york at night. That was pretty sweet and I didn't have to deal with New York at all. I'm a little ****** at them about Hillary still. After the flight, I slept hard in Dublin and then Brian and I met up to take a bus ...

WEDNESDAY, 12th July We set off about 9am for Galway. The R roads seem to go on forever before we hit the N6. Trouble is when you are crouched over the wheel, in a manner of speaking, and driving through the, sometimes narrow and at other times damn near impassable roads, through the small towns, it became very tiring and slow. Once again it was green from horizon to horizon and dotted with lazy cows and dopey sheep. A surprising number of fields lay empty. Lying fallow maybe or ...

... to fight against. So, needless to say, we didn't hang out there for forever. The view is definetly worth is, though. We got into Galway yesterday afternoon and found our hostel, then went out and met up with some of Kat's friends from when she was here. It was a fun evening. Today we are headed up to Connemara, to see what other beautiful sights there are in Ireland. It's a bit dark and rainy today, so we probably won't do the planned hiking, but we'll still drive around a bit.