I arrived back into London yesterday and am now alone to travel around for the next 5 and a half weeks. I'm spending the first 5 days in London, then I'm heading over to Iceland to see my wonderful friend Elin! I'm very excited to see her! And the not so new little one she has!
Ireland was absolutely wonderful. I mastered driving stick shift, and even driving on the other side of the road, even in rush hour traffic and on fairly steep hills! Can't say I want one when I get home, but I now have the skill of driving one which is nice. I drove around the Ring of Kerry in the southwest part of the island, and I even got to kiss the blarney stone! Kissing the blarney stone at Blarney Castle gives you the give of eloquence. Yea!
For the most part we stayed near Killarney the first 3 days, it was a nice area to be based out of and we had a wonderful B&B. We moved on to outside of Cork on Wednesday after visiting Blarney, we went to Kinsale which is on the very south, south of Cork..we took a harbour cruise tour, which was wonderful, of course, I forgot my camera in the car as we were in a rush to get to the departure point in time. It has some wonderful postcard views as I call them.
Then Thursday morning was not so great...I woke up feeling awful and I'll leave it up to your imagination..I was sick. I couldn't walk very far without being dizzy and nauseous. Luckily we got to another B&B near Waterford which is where we were going to stay and got some medicine and I slept most of the afternoon and evening. I felt better the next morning and we were back on our way. We went into Waterford and went to the Waterford Crystal Factory...it was really neat to see them make the crystal.
Leaving the Crystal factory we headed to south of Dublin where we stayed friday night. Saturday we flew out, no damages to the rental car and it was definitely brought back with an empty tank..which was requested, 33 km left to drive on the estimate gauge. We got back into London, made it to our hotel and this morning I took my parents to the airport and they should be home in a few hours. I'm back at the hostel in London and I've done my wash!!! (VERY EXCITING!) and now checking internet for cheap! I've missed it greatly! Who knows what's in store for this week...still to be determined!
I'll write about my other places on the cruise at some point. Miss you all.
Love.
1 comment:
Are you sure you didn't get more than the gift of eloquence from the Blarney Stone? ;-)
Good to hear that you're feeling better after your bout of illness...please send my love to Elin, Daniel, and the Little One when you get to Iceland.
Missing you much here! Have some exciting news, but will send you an email when I get the chance...probably sometime tomorrow, after Don and John's seminar over their independent tornado research.
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