Welcome to the Emerald Isle!

So, b/c alot of people keep asking, i thought I'd create a blog for our Ireland Vacation. 10 days in a foreign country can lead one to a lot of things happening! I took over 300 Pictures, which you can view here, but here i'll try and illustrated what happened to me in Ireland!

First, our route. This is a painfully bad attempt with photoshop which sucessfully illustrates how big a tool I am at doing things in photoshop. Mission accomplished!


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We flew into the Shannon Airport on June 8 and flew out on June 18th. We arrived at 6 feckin am, which made June 8th a long ass day!

We started at the Airport in shannon with our first real adventure, which was driving. You see, the Irish, and the English, and mostly other English colonies, drive on the left hand side of the road. with a steering wheel on the right hand side of the car. 100% opposite of what happens in America. So we got this crappy little rental car (a 4-cyl puegot or something. nonsense.) and off we went.


We decided to head for the Cliffs of Moher, which is a "must see" in Ireland, and since we were close, it seemed good. Now with the 5 hour time difference between us and Ireland, when we landed at 6 am, it was like 1 am here. Which meant we'd been up for 19 hours. that will be important.

on the way to the cliffs, we got lost. it was the first of many mishaps. haha. We ended up in this tiny sea-side town of Doolin. It is the home of traditional Irish music apparently. There are probably only 20 bulidings in the town.

Parking is a huge problem in Ireland...

One of thousands of pictures advertising traditional music shops

We went straight away to the cliff of Moher, a gorgeous area of cliffs in Western Ireland. This is my picture. I'm sure you can find more attractive ones on the net...


the Cliffs of Moher 
in driving around, i started taking pictures of every old castle or broken down church i saw. then i realized that you cross a hill, there's another ruined castle or church or something. This is the first one we saw.

it was pretty. the end ;) From there, we headed into a Small town known as Ennis. my first experience in an older Irish town that had somehow forced roads into their town layout. In Innis, I found a cool bar. They had a bootleg homer on their sign. hahaha.


then, off to the B&B for some much needed sleep around 3 in the afternoon. which was 10 am here. which means approx 27 hours with no sleep. i was beat. we had dinner that night at a little Irish pub (a pattern which was soon to repeat itself, well, daily). I got into 2 habits. the first was taking a picture of every beer i drank in Ireland. I won't post all of them here (see the photo book if you care), but this one is special because it was my first Guinness in Ireland. My second habit was that i took b/w pics of Kim in every pub. It gave us something to do. ;)