Carna Bay Hotel Connemara

hey I'm just wondering if any1 is going to Canada as I'm going on the 27th DEC 09,
was supposed to meet up with my friend but he has to come home as he has to get operated on..
but anyway I'm Michael 23 years old from Ireland living in galway but am from wicklow, bit of a party animal lol just wondering if any1 is heading over nd maybe we could share hostels so it would be cheaper on every1 i want to go Toronto first for maybe a ...

Alright so I apologize for being so behind on my travel blogs. My goal this weekend is to get caught up to date. So even though I have had more recent trips I am going to tell you about my weekend in Galway which a group of 6 of us went to at the end of September. We left on Thursday night and arrived in Galway at midnight. A lady we met on the bus actually walked us all the way to hostel since ...

What a coast!
Easily a 200-m (650 ft) drop off the edge. A tower was built for Victorian tourists. I walked both ways. Of course, going past the don't enter sign makes you wonder. I did for a little while, but the safety person in me couldn't go too far.

A journey underground - another cave journey. Apparently, bears also used to hibernate here. And it has been a very long time since bears actually lived in Ireland.

Had a pretty interesting waterfall inside. This was also an interesting tour. They actually turned the lights out while we were in there. Total darkness is an interesting thing.

... the ferry (O Briens) for our trip to the Cliffs of Moher, about €8, boat ride is great, cliffs are pretty amazing, lots of birds, wind a bit strong, but cool trip

back at the car we drive to the tops of the cliffs, for the other view, nice walkways with some awesome views, a bit precarious at times as the cliff is crumbling, and apparently ...

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)

Usual story, the two lads on the **** again, (I'm going over to ...

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... to go back and change is that I would then have two sets of wet clothing, including both pairs of shoes. I just hoped that my clothes would dry overnight, because I was leaving in the morning. Since the rain was continuing, I didn't exactly feel like going out for supper, so I made do with the food I'd brought (rice cakes, Nutella, some fruit, remnants of a little cake I'd used as my birthday cake the previous evening). I spent the evening trying to dry out. The power ...