Blogs from Carlow, County Carlow, Ireland, Europe - page 4

This morning I woke up with the intentions of running out into the country and found the road too narrow for me to run on. As soon as you leave the urban area the sidewalk ends and there are no shoulders and thick grass that makes it impossible to walk on. Around 2 we walked to a large bar called Dinn Ri where we watched a Hurling game, Waterford vs Kilkenny. I've never seen that sport before and it was probably the most intense sport I have ever seen! They never stop running and it seemed like the goal was to knock the other players out. They had to play incredibly rough and a person got hurt every couple of minutes. We ended up leaving at half time. Kaley and I decided we really really wanted ... read more

Well I'm finally here! Mom, dad, and I left our house about 8:40am on Thursday and arrived at Chicago airport around two. After meeting up with the Ambrose group...around 17 students....we checked in our luggage...mine being exactly at the weight mark! We took off from Chicago around 7pm and flew through rain pretty much the entire time. As soon as we started flying over Ireland the rain cleared so we got to see the sunrise and the beautiful landscape. Of course, though, as soon as we reached Dublin it started pouring again. We landed around 8am and got our luggage really quickly and then hauled it out to our bus that seemed forever away since we had to walk through the rain. Carlow is supposed to be an hour southwest of Dublin but we didn't get ... read more