Horseshoe House Bed and Breakfast Doolin

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... to see every day...and I thought that it kind of gave a really fascinating perspective as to just how small our existence here is in comparison to the whole course of human history. Others in the group were significantly less interested in the dead people, needless to say.<br><br>After spending about 2 hours in the museum, a few in our group were very ready to do some shopping. We located a few major shopping streets and spent time ...

Sorry I havent posted in about a month... I have been very busy, but mostly I've just been lazy and my internet really sucked before so I couldnt upload pictures. However now it is fixed and I am hoping to do alot of bloggong in the next couple of days, so we'll see. Lets step back in time to Sept 20th. Me and the rest of the Villanova kids decided to do a tour of The Burren. This included the Cliffs of Moher, the Aillwee caves, and Dunguaire Castle ...

... a scone for the bread, but that was okay. <br><br>We drove to the little town of Kilbaha where we made a quick stop for directions. I wanted to visit the Church of the Little Ark and needed to know where it was. The ark was a chapel that was moved about on a wagon. The landlord of the town would not allow Mass to be said on his property, so the priest devised the ark that could be set out on the strand at low tide. There he would say Mass for the ...

... and additional sad story to go with them. From time to time, you will see a wall going up a large hill and suddenly end. These are the Famine Walls. In 1845-1848 when the great potato famine was on, the English were ruling and didn't want to give 'handouts' to the starving Irish people. So instead, they made them work for it. Since they didn't want the work to actually benefit the infrastructure of Ireland or help in anyway, they had them build ...

We awoke bright and early the next morning for a bus tour to Limerick, the Cliffs of Moher, and some other areas of Irish countryside. Our Paddywagon tour guide was amazing. He was this little old red-haired Irish man, pretty much a Leprechaun, who told ridiculously long (I'm talking 20 minute) stories that ended up being jokes. He was highly entertaining. The drive to the Cliffs of Moher was beautiful -just miles of ...

... lots of OLD castle ruins. Today I met two of my distant cousins. They were almost as fluffy and round as me! They ...

... around the church from their houses. The apparition lasted a little over two hours. During the entire time, none of the figures uttered a word. In the days after the apparition, Knock gained a reputation for being a place where miraculous cures occurred. That reputation exists to this day.<br><br>While the apparation at Knock has some similarities to other apparitions (Lourdes, Fatima, etc.), it was very different from other approved apparitions in many ways. The first ...