Blogs from County Clare, Ireland, Europe - page 24

Ok so it was a great night! we actually met a girl from connecticut and a boy from new york, the funny thing was, they were MAD MIKES STUDENTS!! haha we just thought it was hilarious. They were soo much fun and hopefully we hang out with them while we are here in Tralee. it is nice to find other people from home, you dont get judged and you can just have a great time. We were shopping the other day and we were scoffed at because the irish hate bush!. well thats just too damn bad now isnt it? We had children scream out of a van F**KIN AMERICANS!!.. Do we honestly stick out that bad!? i guess its our bright whites? right bev!? lol.. So we started the night out by going to Baileys ... read more

So Doolin was pretty much awesome. It's not really a town or a village - there's no convenience store or gas station or even a hotel. It's a road (just barely wide enough for two lanes) that goes from the Doolin pier and connects an Upper Village and a Lower Village. It's about a mile between the two villages, and there's nothing in that mile except for B&Bs, farmhouses, and my hostel. It's something like a national shrine to trad. Everywhere I've been, people talk about the 'legendary' McDermott's and McGann's, which are the two pubs in the Upper Village. I don't know how long they've existed, but it must have been awhile - McGann's is covered in black and white photographs of old trad sessions. And it really was amazing - it was the first ... read more

Well its been a couple days but i've decided to go onward and forward with my flight to Dubrovnik, i found a bunch other numbers to call for lodging. Let's see whats happened since my last entry... Well I got Fish and Chips again since its cheap, fills you up and is relatively good and found Ken chilling in the common room which he usually does and asked him if he wanted to go check out the Comedy Store, which he did. We went over around 6 but doors didnt open until 630 so we went to a small pub and I tried a beer called London Pride which was pretty good and Hoegaarden or Boegaarden, something Belgian and it was a white ale. I didnt like it too much, seemed like something thats an acquired ... read more

Working our way up the west coast, we managed to find the Cliffs of Mohr (cue Monty Python music). These natural cliffs are like 300 meters high, the wind was whipping off the Atlantic and blowing waves and spray way up them... There are BIG warning signs to not go near the edge, but that didn't stop us... nothing could deter us from getting the shoe in position for a great shot...... read more

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