Geo: 40.4167, -3.70327 We arrived in Madrid at 9am in the morning, and prompty went looking for a place to sleep. Since we didn´t have internet in Blois, we couldn´t book anywhere to sleep for Madrid. I had wanted to stay at a place called Cat´s Hostel because its a renovated small palace and very pretty. So we walked there first... hoping they would have openings. And we got lucky ´cause they did! We booked 2 rooms in a 4 bed dorm for 2 nights for fairly cheap! Not bad! It was early afternoon by the time we were free and in need of a game plan. It was Sunday, so everything closes early. I had heard they do bullfighting on Sundays, so we decided to look into that first (let me preface that statement with... ... read more

Geo: 48.8566, 2.35097 So Paris has been very good to us. =) Yesterday we set off to go to Versailles (a giant pretty chateau palace) but it turns out they are closed Mondays. Oddly enough ALOT of things are closed on Mondays. Thankfully we discovered this on the way to Versailles and not after having gotten there and wasted all the money. lol. Anyway, so we changed plans and decided to visit the Louvre (home of Mona Lisa). This was by far the most ginormous museum I have EVER been in. We spent most of the day wandering around getting lost and only saw most of one floor and part of a second, and there are FOUR floors. We visited Lisa right off since I had heard horror stories about the mob scene getting to her. ... read more

Geo: 48.8566, 2.35097 I got the worst sleep imaginable last night. So, I was exhausted and crashed early... about 930ish... (ps. i apologize for spelling errors.. stupid french keyboards). And some guy comes into the dorm room around 2am.. loudly. He reeks of alcohol and vomit, and slowly climbs into the bunk above me. When he gets to the top, he kicks off his shoes and they crash to the floor next to me. Then the thrashing begins... at first I had no idea what he was doing up there... It couldnt be sex, he was the only one up there. Every few minutes hed hit and kick and slam into the wall. What the hell, dude. This goes on for 45min. I tried hitting the side of the bunk and yelling at him to knock ... read more

Geo: 53.3441, -6.26749 So, today we had a long drive from Cork to Kilkenny to Dublin. Chris and I slept most of the drive. Kilkenny was our lunch stop. Since we'd already been there, we didn't bother with pictures of the town. We ate at the same place for lunch as last time, the Marble Bar. I had pan fried lemon sole with hollandaise sauce and Chris had a bacon cheeseburger. We were both so tired that day. All the running around and drinking was catching up with us. The afternoon when we got back to Dublin, our last tourist stop was the Guinness Storehouse. It's the Disneyland version of brewery tours. It's very over the top with all its exhibits explaining everything of the making of Guinness to the advertising (which is actually the most ... read more

Geo: 52.0579, -9.50747 Today we just took a long drive around the Ring of Kerry. It's just this famous drive that lots of tourists do- it's very pretty and takes you along the coast past mountains and cliffs, green hills, rocking regions, forests, lakes, you name it we probably drove through it. Okay... maybe no deserts... but you get the idea. We didn't take as many pictures since there was a lot of driving involved... there's also some pictures of stereotypical Irish towns and stores (I just love the architecture). Our tour guide also told us about the Travelers (I know a lot about them already, but I'll recap since my last trip). I find them pretty interesting- they're modern day gypsies in Ireland. Have you seen the movie Snatch with Brad Pitt? His character is ... read more