Great Southern Galway Hotel

... 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>

... cliffs. If the height isn't awe-inspiring enough, the proximity in which you can approach the edge is. Walking along the edge has proven to be one of the most outrageous things I have done to this day. You litearlly walk along this cliff edge and look down only to see a complete vertical drop to the ocean. Most of it is fenced off, but there is a certain area that those who are willing enough can cross over and hike their way ...

... Breakfast everywhere in this overly expensive country is 10 euros alone, so why not get the mini luxury of a B and B, privacy, cleanliness, and hospitality and catering...all for in reality, 10 euros! We went to the first place we saw, got a price, and bartered the sweet old man down 10 euros each. Beautiful breakfast in the morning included. <br><br>So it wouldnt be a normal day if we didnt get lost for minimum an hour in Ireland ...

... the national history museum in the morning and the Guinness museum in the evening was a very interesting contrast. I think I'm getting old...I almost enjoyed the former more. Maybe that's just because it was free :)<br><br>After the Guinness tour, it was about 7pm so we decided to try to find dinner. I've never really realized that I've adapted to Spanish culture until that point. We were out, wandering around trying to find ...

... a site to behold. We walked around the tourist part, but we were soon done with that and decided to venture off the beaten path a bit... Now I am sure you all know that I am pretty accident prone, so when we went to the area that was "off limits" (though there were a ton of people hopping the wall) I was a bit scared, but I survived and got the best pictures of the day from it. It was really neat to be off of the pavement and away from the walls ...

... to work again on our papers. At 3:00 we headed into the City Centre to visit the Nora Barnacle House. This was the home of J. Joyce&#8217;s wife. It is a very tiny house. It&#8217;s so hard to imagine that six (I think) people lived there. It only had one room downstairs and a small room upstairs. Photographs were not allowed. However, I didn&#8217;t see that sign until after I had taken ...

Our time in Galway has come to an end and we must say that we will miss this city. We have absolutely loved our time here. Galway is a wonderful town and it and the surrounding area have so much to see and do. The Irish people have been so warm and friendly and who wouldn&#8217;t love that accent. We&#8217;ve enjoyed their original sayings such as half seven for seven thirty, how everything is "brilliant", and trolleys ...

... my request then proceeded to m*ke fun of me "we put in BIG LETTERS NO REQUEST *nd wh*t does Lindsey do? Put her n*me" NO you c*n't h*ve it off! And I s*id Well I thought th*t since I worked New Ye*rs Eve, Christm*s Eve, V*lentines d*y *nd th*t bec*use i *m * tourist you would w*nt me to enjoy this on *nd only time I will be in Irel*nd for St. P*tty's d*y *nd they l*ughed *nd s*id NO. BAH i could't even get m*d *s I knew I wouldn't get it off!

... to eat together and gossip and just have fun! I made baked spaghetti- minus the meet as Dave left my groceries out on the counter! AGHHH I was so mad! haha oh well it still turned out really well!!! At around 11 ish we ended up going to the other hostel because it was all closed with no guests in it and Olli (this kiwi guy that lives and works at The Claddagh (our hostel) was working there so we all partied over there until ...

... of several fishermen he knew well. He also tends to repeat his phrases. Lots of facts, few numbers. One of them is that Ireland has 11 million sheep, 3 million of which are in Connemara--and only 4 million people. The landscape of Connemara is not the bright emerald green of central Ireland, more of a multi-toned olive shading to rust brown, with an occasional bright field standing out in the middle of it. It's dominated by sheep with dye on their wool marking their ...