Ramada Hotel And Suites Ballykisteen Tipperary

i have a strange feeling that i will not be staying on top of this until i get home...i've been crazy busy with school and trying to maintain somewhat of a social life. well anyway, my mom will be here on Friday! i'm so excited, i just can't wait. my aunt and my cousin are coming too and we're going to have so much fun! well time to get more work done so that i'll be able to have fun while they're here! love you all and i'll be home a month from today!

... deck, and room service, oh yes, room service. This is how we roll when we are backpacking. We took the time, obviously, to shower, striaghten, shave, and beautify ourselves in order to take fulladvantage of the luxurious suite we ACCIDENTALLY booked. We told each other we were going to do this once or twice this tripand here we are, three days in, enjoying this luxury. Hahaha nothing but downhill from here. We'll just take a night or two sleeping in ...

so i haven't updated in a while and i have about 6 entries that i need to post, but i've been super busy with midterms! i miss everyone and this weekend i will hopefully be posting pictures and entries of everything that i did while i was in the UK. i just wanted to let everyone know that i'm ok and just trying to power through all this school work.

... as to Canada, Argentina and Australia. 3 million left from the early 1800's to 1970. It is also the port from which the Titanic and the Lusitania sailed on theri last vogages.

We ended up in Kinsale, visited an amazing stone fort there (Charles Fort), had dinner and headed for "home". Our only real adventure was getting though Cork on our way home- we literally went in circles under the guidance of the GPS. And thank God we had it or we'd be there still!

... like maybe it was a woman)- he said no- burglary is a man's game here. Women do fraud and shoplifting, not burglary.

My favorite moment was walking out of the library with the policeman through the area where other guests were having afternoon tea. I wonder what they thought!

Wish I could have pulled my IPhone out to get a picture of Officer Buckley for you!

... My body braces for a cold shock as my naked feet enter the water, but I'm pleasantly surprised at how warm it is. Much warmer than Tofino for sure.

It was a perfect evening surf. Nice sets of 5 ft waves, were broken by smaller sets, making it easy to get out. A quilt of high cirrus clouds cast a beautiful light on the rolling emerald hills, broken by the occasional sand dune or crumbling cliff. Everything about the place felt soft, even the warm waves were soft.

... is the youngest at 22 years old.  He was also really quiet and didn't talk much.  Simon comes over every day though to help the father with the cow-milking. So anyway, we arrive at the house and are greeted by Peter who asks if we were "lost".  His accent is hard to understand as it's very thick (if anyone has ever seen Snatch, he's pretty much like Brad Pitt's Pikey character)  Sheila than makes us the first of her great meals:  sausage ...

... and I went to our usual Saturday night dinner spot at Wagamama - the closest we can get to a decent Asian meal here. Earth Hour was happening on the 29th so between 8 - 9pm they switched off the lights in the restaurant (apart from the kitchen) and had tea light candles lit on the tables instead. It was actually improved the atmosphere, I donīt see why they donīt do that every night. I got my usual favourite - the vegetarian rice curry - breaded sweet potato ...

Ok if you have heard of the song "It's a long way to Tipperary" way the song is 100% on the money cause even with the GPS unit I still got lost and for something that should of taken 45 minutes to get there but it took over an hour, so you could say it was a bloody long way to Tipperary. But it was worth it spent just under an hour looking around this famous town, and even bought a lotto ticket for the Euro Millions 203 million is this week draw. Also had a look around Cashel Rock (Castle)

... a with some relief that we reached Galway a couple of hours later. As I unloaded my bag from the back of the car, the last to dismount at my somewhat more 'basic level' abode than my friends (!), the driver couldn't help but ask, 'Geoghegan. Now does dat mean you knor Jim Geoghegan from up the coast t'ere? T'ere's a lot of t'em folks around.' "Well perhaps we may be related in some distant way, but no, sorry, it's my first time here in Ireland if I'm honest ...