Our Week in Ireland

We spent about a week in Ireland and it was totally cool! We flew into Dublin and spent our first night there. We didn’t really have much of a plan for our week in Ireland so we went to a tourist place and decided to go on a three-day bus tour of Southern Ireland! Yes!!

We left Dublin early the next morning on a little green bus called the Paddywagon. There were about 30 people on the bus tour, including a bus driver/tour guide with a ridiculous Irish lisp and we could barely understand him... except when he made a joke, because he always snickered at his own jokes. Beside the bus driver we met some VERY cool people, like Jesse! From the United States! He signed our guestbook. Yes! Thank you Jesse!

Anyway, on the first day of the bus tour we went to very cool places like Clonmacnoise which was a cool monastery and Galway where we spent a night and went out to a pub! Hmm Guinness! Jesse bought us one! Thank you Jesse!
The next day we went to the Cliffs of Moher, which are about 750 meters tall, on the coast of Ireland! It was incredible! Thank you Jesse!

From there we went to a cool surf town where a wonderful woman from South Africa, named Jane, treated us to hot chocolate! We love her very much. We were the poor bums on the tour... when everyone else ate in pubs we ate peanut butter and banana sandwiches... outside the pub. So, that was very nice of her!

That night we stayed in Killarney and celebrated Christmas in Killarney! Well, maybe we didn’t BUT we did go out to a pub! There was a band that played and when they played the national anthem, and everyone else was standing, we didn’t know what was going on. We stood eventually.

The next day we went to Cork, but we dot want to talk about that now. After Cork we went to the Blarney Castle where we kissed the Blarney Stone. And Ern caught Hep A. Eww. Just kidding! We all did. Anyway, the tour was really nice and we headed back to Dublin. We spent two more nights there and ran into one grumpy man who kicked us off his steps. Pssshaw.

Before leaving for France we went to Limerick and a lovely little town called Six-Mile Bridge. We stayed in a beautiful hostel called Jamaica Inn and then caught a bus the next morning to the airport. And flew to France!