Blogs from Ireland, Europe - page 367

Just been through the list and got all my gear in one spot. Doesn't look too bad but it's not complete yet. We got our travel docs and there's one small hiccup. A certain person has a middle name Jeremiah which appears as his first name for the Inca trail pass. Let's hope we don't get stopped!! Here's the route http://www.travelblog.org/gmaps/map_4Bg.html Our itinerary is as follows 28th Aug - overnight Madrid, flying out Lima on the 29th. 30th Aug, a feast day in Lima and we head off to the jungle Puerto Maldonado (how did that happen?) 2 days later we arrive in Cuzco to acclimatise for our big trek starting on the 3rd of September. Will AOD be allowed on? Assuming all ok we finish on the 7th and arrive back in Cuzco for a ... read more

Clare After Kerry I went up to County Clare, where my base was the town of Doolin. Clare is home to two things I’d really wanted to see in Ireland; the Cliffs of Moher and the Burren. On the bus up to Doolin we stopped for 15 minutes at the centre for the Cliffs of Moher. I couldn’t resist popping up to the cliffs for a quick preview, even though I was planning to spend a day there later. It was evening, so the light was fairly low and it was overcast, too, but the cliffs were quite stunning. I just stopped at the first viewpoint because I didn’t want to miss the bus. After Dingle, with it’s litter problem overshadowing the beautiful landscape, it was heaven to stand at the top of these gorgeous cliffs ... read more

Our agenda today was simple - get to London. We were able to have another small sleep in, before catching our cab to Dublin airport, and finding the Aer Lingus desk. If you can organise them, E Tickets are definitely the way to go…the lines are much quicker! Unfortunately, we only have paper tickets, so we have to join the longer queues, but most of the time we’re there early, so it’s not a huge problem. Dublin airport is like a mini-shopping centre, so after one last look upstairs we found a seat and relaxed for 10 minutes before boarding our plane. The flight to London was great - only 50 minutes and we were there. Heathrow was no worries again and we were in and out in record time. Plus, we had a hotel transfer! ... read more

Ireland…. Alrighty then, So we picked up the car and it seriously took us forever to get out of the city like an hour to and hour and a half its seriously ridiculous!!! But yeah we got out and headed up the motor ways which was quite boring nd I slept through most of it and then we came to Wales….it’s like someone picked up the Zimbabwe country side and moved it to the UK. It’s really quite awesome none of my pictures do even the slightest amount of justice, so I took a lil bit of video of the winding roads and just how small the lanes actually are and how close the foliage is to the road. Was just absolutely beautiful the only way to put it. So yeah in our travels through Wales ... read more

Well we decided to do a last training walk before our big trip. This is SD, AOD and AC walking around Enniskerry up the waterfall. Not feeling too much pain today considering it was supposed to be 3 hours and ended up being 5!... read more