http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ireland/County-Laois/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , Ireland , County Laois en-us Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:50:57 +0000 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:50:57 +0000 Dave's Top 5 Morrisey's Bar in Abbeyleix get a pint and your corn flakes at the same time First pint of Guinness second pint of Guinness third pint of Guinness... Meal at Chris and Elaine's wedding best beef fillet ever Elaine's dad's speech with a liberal spattering of fecks Mini wooden sauna in hotel room in Dublin bizarreChristina's Top 5 Chris and Elaine's wedding beauti http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ireland/County-Laois/blog-451819.html So flights all booked so its definetly happening now SCARY Spent a while looking for flights and ended up getting the best deal on www.edreams.com The cheapest flights were euro540 with Air Asia from London heathrow flights to london euro25 with Ryan air to stansted or euro50 with Aer lingus to heathrow but i have read only OK reports about them so we ended up paying euro650 each http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ireland/County-Laois/Portlaoise/blog-415712.html So after a bit of organising and getting all our info together Companies to use use bus tours or rent a camper etc we have moved our leaving date closer from Feb 2010 to October 2009. We are aiming to look at the second or third week of october to head off. After some research it turns out that renting a camper van and driving through Eastern Oz works out a few thousand euro cheaper than usi http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ireland/County-Laois/Portlaoise/blog-411804.html Hey allSo iv been trying to find a blog or book or something to help with both what to do and expect traveling to oz for a year and also the prep work thats involved. After spending what seems like 20 years trying to get the info i wanted i have decided to create my own blog as both a record of what was decided on and to maybe help people with their plans. Ok so from the beginning...............A http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ireland/County-Laois/Portlaoise/blog-405535.html Alrighty... so on thursday I got on the train and headed to Portlaoise. The world Fleadh was on there and Lunasa was the opening act on Thursday night. I made it in in a frenzy JUST before the doors were about to shut. The show was beautiful and we went out afterwards and EVERYONE was there. It was a blast but I was not in good form. Definitely completely worn out and exhausted. The plan was to r http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Ireland/County-Laois/Portlaoise/blog-309466.html