Top of the mornin to ya! Guinness, fiddles & banjos. Guinness, accordions & pubs. Guinness, top scenery, narrow, bendy roads & heaps of Craic! This was Ireland for me n dad. DUBLIN: We flew into Dublin & stayed @ a shithouse hostel, so first thing the next day we hired a car and hit the road for a week. ENISCOTHY: A short drive to this little village, we where a bit buggered so we stayed at a b&b in a little pub, walked round the town not too much to see. CORK: A quick detour to cook head lighthouse, which guarded [View Full Entry]

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THE RING OF KERRY The ROK cuts a loop around a peninsular & there is some top scenery. Mountains, forests, roads hugging the hills along the coast with H2O falls roadside, little villages, pub, beaches & very skinny roads. (The roads r 2 way but most of the time u can only just fit 1 so if another car comes u havta back it up to a wide spot) We stayed in a little village called Catherdaniel for a night in a little hostel that we had to our selves. There was a real nice beach & lads where having a [View Full Entry]

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What the! Dad?! Your meant to back home not in Manchester! He had decided to come and meet us at the train station (great grey cell work to get the timing) and surprise us, and he did! So we all caught the train to a little town called Parbold in between Manchester & Liverpool. We stayed with one of mum & dad’s friend’s Mary (really great lady). Mary was so good she took us on tours of the surrounding areas, to Wigan pier & museum, the Liverpool docks, to meet friends that took us on hikes around the country side & [View Full Entry]

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More wine, more cheese & more bread!! Luvin it! I kept trying to speak french but i always ended up saying "Par lay vou engla" ( do you speak English) Tours is a real nice city, it has the la lier river running through it & a whole area of the city is really old school (100's of years old). Tours is in a area that has a tone of castles, so we went on a tour (me, mum & 2 japs). We had a french guy driving us around in a mini van & this lad was a crazy driver! [View Full Entry]

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I luv eating in France! The food is great & there is heap's of it! ( i even eat frog's & snails and loved em!) A typical meal in France: Apperitive (alcoholic bev to start) then appetizer, then main, then fromage (cheese) then dessert & finish with coffee. And there is always plenty of cut up bread sticks on the table and tasty wine & you can get it good and cheap (€1 or €2 about 3 bucks). We stayed with a french family that mum met in AUS & they where so great. Pascal was a master chef & he [View Full Entry]

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"Oh shit! Sorry mate!" I mean "Pardon monsieur!" This is me on the metro in rush hour in Paris with my huge pack on my back knocking French lads left right & center! We stayed 3 nights in Pari (the french don't like to say the letters at the end of words) and it was great, so many famous things to see. Mum booked a heap of stuff back in AUS before she came, which was great. So for 2 days we had a bus tour but u could get on & off when ever you want and catch the next [View Full Entry]

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Wow! London has some pretty impressive stuff to see! we (me n mum) stayed in a hotel for the first 3 nights, in Victoria (close to the center of town). So for a couple of days we walked around the city and saw the sights. First we went to Buckingham palace & saw the changing of the guards (the red dudes with the funny hats). Then we walked through St James park to the palace of Westminster, houses of Parliament & Big Ben. Then on the way back we checked out Westminster abbey & cathedral. The next day we went on [View Full Entry]

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"Australian's all let us rejoice for we r young and free, with golden soils and wealth for toil, our home is girt by sea" 1000's of drunk Aussie's singing the national anthem for the start of the rugby league grand final @ 10 in the morning in the walkabout pub in London. The Walky is a chain of Aussie bars in London and they have all our top beers & spirits. Pie & sauce in 1 hand, T.E.D in the other & a bundy on the bench beside me, Pure bliss!( that's a beer and a rum for the non AUS). [View Full Entry]

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"Am prost am prost de me tika" Thousands of paro people singing along to the German horns band. In 1 of the many ginormous beer tents @ Oktoberfest. I flew into London from DC and didn't leave till the next day, so i planned on goin out and havin a beer and seeing if i could get some free accom. but the bloody bars shut at 11 or 12 at night. so i went back to the airport and tried to sleep on the floor. Got to Munich that arvie and was buggered so went to the hostel and crashed. I [View Full Entry]

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America I've had a shit hot time visiting ya, I got to do & see alot of really cool stuff. There is alot i missed too, so you might see me again in the future. A QUICK RECAP ON MY TRIP: Time spent: 4 months Countries visited: 2 States stopped in: 11 City stays: 16 $$ spent: Nearly 10 g's (aus) ( shit I spent alot of money) New friends: heaps Nationalities experienced: 5 Items lost or stolen: Passport, sleeping bag & credit card (just the unimportant stuff) Bev's consummed: enough to fill 3 olympic pools! Highlights: There's so many - [View Full Entry]

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