Limerick and a free hotel room
Trip Start
Dec 29, 2008
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Trip End
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Limerick,
County Limerick,
Ireland
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
The weather was absolutely amazing as we wound our way through villages down to the Cliffs of Moher. The parking lot for the cliffs cost 8 euro, but that included the entrance fee.
The visitors centre at the Cliffs of Moher is dug into the hills like a Hobbit's house. Since it was St Patricks day there were local children doing irish dancing in the foyer.
The wind almost blew us down the hill as we walked in the sunshine to the various lookout points. The cliffs were stunningly beautiful. Large barriers and stone walls prevented people from getting too close to the edge, but quite a lot of people blatantly ignored them.
We continued down to the city of Limerick, passing through to find the campsite on the far side. We found the prices for the campsite when we got there, but not the owners, and had second thoughts about staying there for the night.
The guys we'd met at the Travelodge had also been heading to Limerick and had been in touch. Aimee asked them how much it'd cost for a room in their hotel, and next thing they were offering us their 'spare' hotel room. All we had to provide was some drinks.
This all happened while we were having dinner and delicious Baileys coffees in a cute pub in Adare.
We were given the address and weren't really sure what the hotel would be like. It happened to be the tallest hotel in Ireland, a modern building right on the riverside. The room was amazing. It was on the 14th floor and huge! The fact that the four of us had to sleep in one king size bed didn't phase us at all.
The boys came up for a drink and we ended up sitting around chatting till about 1.30am, before eventually heading to Limerick town. We were so late there wasn't many options of where to go. We went into a bar with a few different levels and I think the first level we went to was actually someone's 18th birthday party. We went down a level and danced till it closed.
We stopped in at BK on the way home and itt was absolutely filthy. There was rubbish everywhere and when we went to the bathroom there was a part of the toilet shoved into the toilet bowl. Me and Aimee both got a piggy-back half the way home from our new friend Matt.
