Ireland

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Friday April 27 Bus to Gatwick is surprisingly OK and seemed a lot quicker than the one we caught into london the other day.

Flight to Dublin: seat, cattle class find any one you can first in best dressed. apparently it costs more for them to book you an allocated seat?? go figure. noisy poms, rude americans and crying foregin children FANTASTIC

April 28th did a hop on hop off bus tour which took an hour and a bit . the tour showed all the major sights of dublin.

April 29th got up around 8ish to get to the museum by ten when we thought it opened. took the bus for half an hour to get there to find it doesn't open until 2pm. the worst part was that the only reason for the bus to stop where it did was to let people off for the museum. the bus driver had to know it was closed!!!!!


Paddywagon Tour:
any tour that involves a bright green bus has to be good right?
to be honest i was a little disappointed at the amount of things we actually did. we spent three days having lunch at a beach (i may be a little spoiled but i can do that at home). the accomodation on the tour was great when we were in paddy's palaces. some of the best hostels i have been in. amongst the things we did actually see on our tour were the Cliffs of Moher, willam butler yates' headstone, giants causeway, bloody sunday monument, guiness factory, blarney castle and stone, a horse and carriage ride through killarney national park.


Day 1
Blarney Castle and Stone and stayed in Kilarney
Day 2
Horse ride through Kilarney National park - breathtakin scenery. Dingle for two hours, we slept on the grass. stayed at a small town anna scara?
Day 3
Lunch at yet another beach, vehicle ferry across to somewhere. Cliffs of Moher. Galway
Day 4
Lunch at a beach more than likely. straight to Northern Ireland and the city of Derry. Derry was where Bloody Sunday occured. we saw the monument and had a walking tour of Derry by one of our drivers mates.
Day 5
Giant's causeway and rope bridge. nice scenery yet again. Belfast and a black taxi cab tour of the murals. they're very interesting.
Day 6
back to Dublin. we stopped at a town where oliver plunketts head resides in a church. pretty cool. then to the guiness factory for a self-guided tour. the view is nice.


Sunday
national museum



in dublin til tuesday. going to try and make this museum that was closed and then off to belgium!!!

the national Museum was really interesting. it detailed the onvolvement of the Irish in many different battles throughout history. i thoroughly recommend you visit this exhibition if you are in ireland.

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Comments

[Michelle]

what bloody Museum was that?? Cant believe I missed you guys in Sligo today! oh well, its nearly saturday!!