Geo: 52.0579, -9.50747Today was a very busy day.First we started out our drive around Slea Head, which was an absolutely gorgeous drive. This was stereotypical Ireland- emerald green hills, aquamarine blue ocean, white sheep dotting the landscape- it was freakin amazing. We stopped first thin on this little pullout where you can follow this path down the side of the cliff and get some great views overlooking the ocean. Of course Chris and I were first down the mountain. Oh, there was also an awesome road sign on the side of the road. It's one of the "falling rocks" signs that had been graffitied with lil legs, so it looked like a "Falling Sheep" sign. lol, awesome. We continued around Slea Head, stopping at various places to take pictures. At one point there was an easily ... read more

Geo: 53.2789, -9.06619 Yes, I would be in on this epic blair witch adventure story had I NOT been sick in bed. =( I wasn't quite as sick as the night before, but still... the thought of drinking was not appetizing. Perty lame. So we stayed in the tiny village of Cong. There's maybe... a dozen buildings (okay... I'm exaggerating... there might be two dozen, I didn't count). It's a small town, and as our trusty guide said, it was very funny how ten minutes after the group arrived in the pub, half the village showed up. So they all had a wonderful night of drinking and then headed down to the local Kelly Cave on the way back to the hostel, which is a 7min (brisk walk sober... could be hours when you're drunk) walk ... read more

Geo: 54.66, -8.12So, yesterday was not as much fun as either of us were planning on it being. I had a stomach ache all night the night before, but I thought maybe I was just hungry. No big deal.Yesterday morning, we took a Black Cab tour of Belfast. They drove us around to view the different Catholic and Protestant neighborhoods with their policital murals and separated by "peace walls" (ironic name, eh?). The unemployment rate in Belfast is 33%- that's insane.Anyway, yesterday we drove out to Glen veagh ("Glen vay"). It's a castle in the highlands of the middle of nowhere on a lake. Being the middle of nowhere, that meants 2.5 hours driving on curvy bumpy roads on a bus in the rain. NOT fun. My stomach ache just got worse and worse. Chris picked ... read more

Geo: 54.9981, -7.30934 So we hopped onto our tour at 8am that morning. There's 24 of us, including our funny-ass driver, Seanie. He hella makes us laugh. It turns out we have lots in common with the other travelers. There's like 5 radiographers from Australia ("Austraya"), an old couple (the wife is a nurse), Katie (a specialist who injects radiographic dye into people), a guy from Seattle, 2 sisters from Kentucky, 2 girls from north of the Bay Area, a cop who looks exactly like Elijah Wood (dude, he's even from New Zealand.. he is totally Frodo), etc. Everyone's really cool, and we've been havin lots of fun with them. First stop on the tour was Drogheda ("DRAW-eh-duh") to see Sir Oliver Plunkett's head and get some breakfast. lol. First of all, that is the most ... read more

Geo: 53.3441, -6.26749We both got loooooots of sleep, much needed sleep, last night. When we got back to the hostel after updating the blog (at an internet cafe), there were 7 Brits partying it up in the room. lol. Which, oddly enough, turned out to be a good thing. It was only 4pm when we got back, and still too early to be going to bed. We were both struggling to stay awake at that point. I was too tired to read or concentrate on anything, but I was falling asleep which wasn't good. So the Brits, one very buzzed/drunk one in particular, kept offering Chris onion rings. lol. Chris kept saying "no thanks" and then he'd try offering the variety of alcohol they had scattered about the room. Eventually Chris said okay and started taking ... read more