Back From the Islands
Hi all,
Just got back from the Aran Islands...it was gorgeous! We had great weather on both Thursday andFriday...then pouring rain today...but what can you expect for Ireland!! The first day, we went for a walk and discovered just how large the island really is so booked bicycles for the next day. Madeline and I dipped our toes in the Atlantic Ocean...beautiful beaches on the island of Inis Mor, which is the largest of the three. On the day we had the bikes, wewent over a good deal of the island, climbed over some stone walls to get to the sites, including a very close up and personal look at the cliffs...breathtaking they were as well as terrifying! Got some great photos, so will be sure to make them available to all who wish to see me crawling to the edge of the cliffs...LOL
The hostel had seen better days, but it was cheap so I guess you get what you pay for...no internet and very few pay phones...none near the hostel we stayed in which was a half hour walk from town. Lots of interesting characters, including one toothless old gent who we stopped to ask for directions...gave us a history of the island, some thoughts of his own on the foot and mouth disease, and then snatched a kiss from both of our surprised mugs! We had a grand time cycling down over the cobbled roads (oooh, my aching butt) and sat on the beach, which has sand as fine as any carribean beach, mixed with ground shells that gives it a very whitish appearance.
Managed to pick up an Aran belt, the woven kind they used to all wear...very colorful...might even wear it out! LOLI think I am off to Dingle this afternoon if I can arrange a hostel and bus down there...might as well spend the afternoon on the bus in this rain as walking around Galway.
Following Dingle, I am thinking of spending the remaining week in Cork, getting a look at the area there...but things change, new options come up, so who knows!
Just a sidenote from the trip...heard from the resident teen in an e-mail that I got into the BSW program at UW...YAHOOOOOO! That is a load off mymind...I have to find a way to tell them I am accepting the offer before the 23rd...I may have to scrounge up an e-mail address for Lynda Leeder at Renison...
Well, I should move along here and get to where I am going for the day...got to get into a hostel so I can find the pub before dark...although the way things seem to be, there is one hanging it's shingle out every ten feet or so! LOL
-Jude (hic, hic...burp)
Just got back from the Aran Islands...it was gorgeous! We had great weather on both Thursday andFriday...then pouring rain today...but what can you expect for Ireland!! The first day, we went for a walk and discovered just how large the island really is so booked bicycles for the next day. Madeline and I dipped our toes in the Atlantic Ocean...beautiful beaches on the island of Inis Mor, which is the largest of the three. On the day we had the bikes, wewent over a good deal of the island, climbed over some stone walls to get to the sites, including a very close up and personal look at the cliffs...breathtaking they were as well as terrifying! Got some great photos, so will be sure to make them available to all who wish to see me crawling to the edge of the cliffs...LOL
The hostel had seen better days, but it was cheap so I guess you get what you pay for...no internet and very few pay phones...none near the hostel we stayed in which was a half hour walk from town. Lots of interesting characters, including one toothless old gent who we stopped to ask for directions...gave us a history of the island, some thoughts of his own on the foot and mouth disease, and then snatched a kiss from both of our surprised mugs! We had a grand time cycling down over the cobbled roads (oooh, my aching butt) and sat on the beach, which has sand as fine as any carribean beach, mixed with ground shells that gives it a very whitish appearance.
Managed to pick up an Aran belt, the woven kind they used to all wear...very colorful...might even wear it out! LOLI think I am off to Dingle this afternoon if I can arrange a hostel and bus down there...might as well spend the afternoon on the bus in this rain as walking around Galway.
Following Dingle, I am thinking of spending the remaining week in Cork, getting a look at the area there...but things change, new options come up, so who knows!
Just a sidenote from the trip...heard from the resident teen in an e-mail that I got into the BSW program at UW...YAHOOOOOO! That is a load off mymind...I have to find a way to tell them I am accepting the offer before the 23rd...I may have to scrounge up an e-mail address for Lynda Leeder at Renison...
Well, I should move along here and get to where I am going for the day...got to get into a hostel so I can find the pub before dark...although the way things seem to be, there is one hanging it's shingle out every ten feet or so! LOL
-Jude (hic, hic...burp)
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