We started out the day innocent enough and decided to head off to the botanical gardens since it was a free roaming do as you want type of day. We took the no.27 bus and transfered to another bus to reach the gardens. It seems everything is just a 10 minute ride away in Edinborough. Entry was free, and the sun was shining enabling moi to take some awesome photos. We spent 3 hours meandering around the gardens. The plants were well kept and presented very well. I must say that I was happy with the way the morning turned out, then finishing it up with a lunch at the park. No beer before 3PM today. BUT the parties just begun. It seems there is an underground area in the city of which Bernd and I ... read more

The day started out innocent enough. We decided to tone down the beers. By 11AM we were thirsty. At 9AM we promptly decided to take a tour of the Queens former Yacht "Britannia" you know the one. Where Princess Di and Charles stayed on their honeymoon. The Queen and Prince Philip had separate bedrooms. Remember. Ach...... Google it!. The ship was decommissioned in 1997 at 3PM. All the clocks on the ship were stopped then. The ship has been moored in Edinborough ever since. We toured the Lass and all her staterooms. The Queens bedroom was adjoining Philips. Each bed was extremely small, equivelent to a single bed. A Queen should be in a queen size bed, not a single! The diningroom on the yacht was oversized as was the parlor. Total unbalanced for me. IF ... read more

We started the day off at the Guinness Distillery in Dublin. I knew it was going to be a drinking day. So I made sure that I was well equipped. Did I tell you guys that Ireland has more public toilets per capita than anywhere else I been! Its because of the GUINNESS. They make 3,000,000 pints of Guinness a day! I had one of those today, then another, and another and so-on, and so-on....... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Oh sorry. Well, when I woke up from my Guinness nap, self induced mind you, we ate. I had a Guinness Irish stew, a Guinness chocolate cake with nuts, and drowned it with.... GUINNESS. Yippeeeeee. After a while we decided to visit Trinity College to walk off the excess liquid and hit a loo every block. Thank goodness for public ... read more

Started off the day with a fabulous breakfast. The bacon was huge. Plus I swear the eggs had eyes. They were staring at me. I keep drinking Cappacinnos, and Guinness. After we left the hotel we went to Inch Beach and finally touched the Atlantic. The surf was rough. Had a poop and got back on the bus. From there we headed out past the town of Dingle and out to the Slea Head penninsula. There we saw lots of ancient ruined and not so ruined forts and castles. One place we stopped were the beehive dwellings which were built 6000 years ago and still standing. They were shaped like an igloo. Another place we saw was the Gaillarius Oratory Church) which was built 2000 BC and also still standing. I have discovered Chowder. It is ... read more

Well, as the Irish say "What better way ta start da trip but at a Whisky Distillery. The alcohol flowed. The first stop was Kilbeggan. "Kil" Mens church in Gaelic. So "Church of Beggan" I am Beggin for some whisky!!!" Lol. The wife was kind enough to let me sample the local brew.. So did she... Great when ya don't hafta drive. Apparently there are more than 3000 ruined castles in Ireland. I dinna mind ta tell ya. (Thas the (hic) alcohal talkin) truth!. I tried ta drive the car as ya can see, but I dinna have gas. Well, was up wit dat!. So we continued on our tour and hit an old castle called Clonmacnoise. This place was church ruins and graveyards. We saw some recent deadies from 1934, but most were illedgable. We ... read more