Castle Dargan Hotel Sligo

... getting hit who decided he wanted to join us for part of our journey. Jack was very cute and listened very well but there was one little problem….he had diarrhea! We tried to return him to his owner by calling the number on his tag but she didn’t seem to care too much because he apparently does it all the time and finds his way home; not to mention she was in her nightgown still and didn’t want to come out and get him. When we had walked about 2 km he left us so ...

Our dear friend Helen from Kelowna, BC came to visit us…. I believe it was the week we were finishing school. So it was the end of May.

Just before she came, we got a new little car. Well, its not new, but it was for us. After a year of hitching around Ireland and using the worst public transport system I've ever come across, we thought it was about time to find some wheels. So it was good timing when Helen came, cause we were just ...

... towards Sligo, our stop for the night...we stopped on the way at a church in Drumcliffe where Willam Butler Yeats was buried and took photos in the rain before reaching out hotel, the Southern in the middle of Sligo around 5pm.
The hotel room was pretty fancy, we ended up with a double and single bed again, so this time the double is mine. I swear I am going to come down with the bus cold tomorrow but hoping an early night will ...

... hill of tara at the beginning of some 3 day festile, one year he saw a fire from one of the adjacent hills off in the distance, he sent his druids to find out who dare light a fire in my hood and so his guys went and checked it out. Apparently the guy was st. patick. He told the druids, something to the effect of "I light another fire in this land, one that shall never go out" and that was the beginning of christianity ...

It's 15 weeks since I got back from the big trip... that's three whole months of coping back in the real world: living with an alarm clock which must be obeyed; finding myself back in front of a class of obstreporous children, 5 days a week; paying unwelcome bills; listening to continuous doom-and-gloom news; adjusting to an Ireland deep in a recession and discovering the ...

... l'ostello è in una zona di uffici, un po' desolante. Io e Diego andiamo a correre nei dintorni dell'ostello. C'è una bella zona di villette e un percorso ci porta fino al mare. Questa periferia sembra molto ricca, alcune ville hanno un parco privato. Invidia.
La sera io e Diego tentiamo una sortita a Sligo, in cerca di musica, ma la città non offre granchè e torniamo rapidamente a vedere Di Caprio alla TV nella hall dell'ostello insieme agli altri ospiti.

... If I had to pick one thing to describe Ireland with, at this point it would be cemeteries. Whether it's recent ones, old ones, or megalithic ones, they seems to be an abundance of dead people, and the workings to preserve the memories of them. New graves are visited often and the leavings of treasures are seen. Old ones are perched high overlooking beautiful watery vistas. Ancient ones are at the heart of ...

... half because of the weather and the other half because there was a wedding on. We had a 3pm appointment at Voya - the home of seaweed baths! We each got our own individual room where there was a tub of seaweed waiting. You first strip down to nothing and hop in the steam room to open the pores, after about 15 mins its time to bathe - the first moments in the water feel grose! Its kind of gooey and the water is almost thick and jelly-like. Its warm and the ...

... can have stuff that's at least 3500 years old. With this statement, we did a little investigation, booked some tickets for a plane and a car, this one was a copy of the car they give to the stars on Top Gear to do a hot lap, and what ******* it is, and then we were off. Carrowkeel Passage Tombs After driving 200 K's in the rain, we turned up a little road. It felt like we were in Wales. Maybe it was the sheep. Don't really know, but it felt Welshy !!! We parked the car, and ...

I take back every mean thing I said about the weather in Ireland. The last four days have been beautiful. The last day in Galway Kristy and Zoe took off to Tara and I decide to stay in the city. It was sunny, blue skys and around 25. I spent most of the afternoon sitting by the river reading. I ended up getting a sunburn but it was still fantastic. That night we took a train to Galway and the next day the weather ...