Ocean Cove Hotel Kilkee

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 ...

... of each trailer and began trying to coax us over to his business, telling us to ignore the other! We went to both (and got a better price by doing so!). They obviously have quite a business rivalry! The company we chose has been in business since 1970, but the second guy just opened a couple of years ago.

We had to wait awhile (the ferries from Doolin are very dependent upon the tides), so we browsed some of the ...

Today was our drive from Killarney to the small coastal town of Doolin. The first stop was the Bunratty Castle and Folk Park. The Bunratty Castle was established in the 900's as a Viking settlement and had passed through many prominent lords over the centuries. The park is now set up to mirror how the Irish lived during the previous ages and the grounds have small thatched cottages, a schoolhouse, church, and the castle itself. The park ...

... it.  The next stop was the Burren, which you can't really describe.  It's a rock-filled landscape (glaciers moved over the land and dropped the rocks) and it's gorgeous.  It's one of the places on my list to go back to.  I wanted to play around on it and explore it so much more.  We then got on the bus, and finally ended up on the cliffs.  Mom's gonna hate this part of the story:  But, sure the part of the trail where you could walk the cliffs that was ...

July 15-17: Ennis, Clare
Pitch and putt (free game)
-Bosh being so cocky he gives the byes one stroke on every hole, fails to make a single birdie, gets dominated
-Smitty's unreal (read: flukey) 50 yard hole out (ball bounced off bunker lip, 90 degree change of direction)

... been hit harder than the companies that feed the vast global appetite for inexpensive goods such as toys, household goods, shoes and clothes. Manufacturers of low-cost products have been a key engine of China's economic miracle, helping to turn the country into the world's No. 2 exporter after Germany. For years, these companies continued to grow by expanding their volumes and trimming margins to undercut the competition. As material and labor costs rise and China's currency ...

"proper"
"cochise" (farmboy)
"blocked"
"...like"
"very bad, lads"

Nazi-Jew-American (alternative to RPS)

Coastal tour with Helen
-La Hinch
-Cliffs of Moher
-Doolin

Nolie (sp?)
-mom gardening to AC/DC
-Rasta George = Little Jacob pray to Jah
-J.J. Cale - Mama Don't
-brawl with girls
"you ...

... was over, but no. It's only like 2:00, we still have 3 hours to go! :) So, we get on the bus, all slighly relieved to just sit down and warm up. We head towards our next big stop, Ailwee Caves. But before we get to the caves, we make a mini pit stop at Poulnabrone Dolmen. Uh, so I'm not really sure what the story behind this is. Something about it's a burial sight from back in the day? Apparently a team of excavators ...

... stew. I even had a pint of Guinness, and it didn't kill me! Kath and I listened to a bit of live Irish music before heading back to the hostel in hope of catching up on sleep after the previous night's troubles. Unfortunately, despite the fact that we had booked a private room, we were placed in a dorm room. I don't do dorm rooms! As a result, I added another 2 hours to my sleep tally, being woken constantly through the night by latecomers, snorers and sleeptalkers.

... These differences have led some to doubt that the events at Knock ever took place.

Almost every Irish native I spoke with shared some form of this skepticism. Most that I spoke with felt that Knock was something for older people and not for the younger generations. One woman I spoke to said she'd never been to Knock, although she'd lived in Ireland all her life and was a practicing Catholic. Another said she had been there, but was somewhat unmoved by the place. She ...