From Galway we caught a bus to the Dublin Airport. Another part of our traveling cheaply involved sleeping at the airport when appropriate. We got to the airport around 10, had some food and tried to find a nice place to lay our bodies. This part didn’t work out so well. In most airports there is at least a sitting area, that at night turns into a sleeping area…in Dublin this is not the case. We found a spot where we were led to believe no one would bother us, and fell asleep for maybe an hour. Then we saw a [View Full Entry]

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I couch surfed with a kid named Marco at his parent’s house in Treviso. Treviso is a small medieval suburb near Venice, Italy. It used to be under the rule of the Venetian Empire and is built around and somewhat on top of two rivers. I learned quickly that the Venetians loved building in places they knew they shouldn’t (namely: water). I was again going to avoid Venice but after 6 times of being at the station I decided I should probably go and see what all the fuss is about. I thought I would be able to get to Venice [View Full Entry]

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I flew into Kerry, Ireland from Frankfurt, Germany on the 11th of August. Can’t say I really saw Frankfurt, I mostly used it as a spot to wash clothes and get some rest. I got sick my last day in Venice and continued t be sick for the rest of my trip but the toughest days were in Frankfurt, so I just laid in bed and drank tea and soup. I wasn’t too sick outside of these two days…in fact I recovered mostly within a week. While I was in Istria, Croatia Ivana had been in the Holland and our plans [View Full Entry]

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We went from Cork to Ballycotton by hitching but in order to get to the right highway we had to go to Midleton, the town that holds Jameson Whiskey distillery. Our hitching virginity was broken by a man who lived a little before Midleton, a free form mountain climber. He said he was in Switzerland and no one picked him up when he was hitching so he felt like he had a responsibility to get us. He went into Cork to get his bike chain repaired and was on his was home when he saw us...most of the car was filled [View Full Entry]

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We decided, even after our success, to take the bus to Youghal because we had to be there by 2 PM and didn't want to risk it. We were going to be couch surfing with Victor and his roommate Yoel in Youghal. Yoel is pronounced like you would say Yole and Youghal is pronounced like you'd say Y'all. This strange mix of things became a highlight of our trip....Yoel from Youghal. Neither was a native or Ireland though. Victor was from Spain and Yoel was from Honduras. Youghal is a small town with little going on, but in Irish history it [View Full Entry]

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Kilkenny comes from two words of the Gaelic language (language of the Irish, before the English came), one meaning Church and the other being the name of the saint that it is named after. Instead of translating this directly they just made an English equivalent. In Kilkenny we were couch surfing again, this time with a 33 year old Polish girl named Nina. As soon as Yoel brought us into Kilkenny we met Nina for tea. After we finished we walked to her house. She had another Polish friend that would be staying with her and her roommate was also Polish, [View Full Entry]

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After leaving Nina's Ivana and I had the intention of hitching to a town called Clonmel and getting a bus from there to Ennis and from there hitching to the coast towards Doolin and the Cliffs of Moher. We got to the highway, I made my sign up and we waited. At first we had little luck, first of all we kept thinking we had been through enough of the roundabouts...but there were four or five and we weren't sure which one would be the last one (being past the last one was a benefit because it meant only people traveling [View Full Entry]

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After staying the day with Richard and pitching our tent in an old famine warehouse we tried to hitch to Clonmel again. But it wasn't going too well....the traffic was bare and no one stopped. We waited for about thirty minutes before we said "Okay, let's get a bus." It is not that we can't take a bus, it is just that they are expensive to do all the time...but the longer the distance the less you have to pay. We took a bus to Clonmel, ate some Chinese food, sat and waited and then caught a bus to Limerick, from [View Full Entry]

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We got to Galway mid-afternoon. We started the search for hostels, after going to a few to check rates and then the tourist information we decided upon the Kinlay House. It was a really nice hostel and not very expensive either. We got in our hostel and felt the emptiness in our stomach and went for on a search for some food. We found the Irish equivalent of Walmart, Dunne's. We first were introduced to this store in Kilkenny, it is a lot like Walmart but the quality seems a bit better and it is definitely not the cheapest option, though [View Full Entry]

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The Cliffs of Moher were named one of the world's New Seven Wonders and thus packs in a lot of tourists each year. They raise to about 394 ft and are at the highest point 702 ft...needless to say, they are quite impressive. I don't really have a lot to say about the day other than we explored the cliffs and saw some of the most spectacular things we'd ever seen. We broke the rules and walked along the side for about a mile longer than the tourist section allows you....but hey...it was worth it and they charge so much for [View Full Entry]

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