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Dublin, Ireland

Our last full day in Dublin was spent walking, walking, and then walking some more. Oh, and there was some sightseeing in there too. We went to the older part of town to start and got to see a lot of the old architecture, mostly in the form of churches. We visited the Christ Church of Ireland, and went on a tour of St Audeon Church. The main part of this church (which is still in use today) was constructed in 1190. That makes it 818 years old folks, that's about what twice the age of our country?

We tooled around that area a bit longer and then walked to the Phoenix Park. The park is one of the if not the largest parks within a city proper in Europe. We found this awesome old tree that we played around on for awhile, I gave it a hug and a kiss because it was just that cool. I really wanted to kick my boots off and go for a climb but i didn't figure that would go over to well the the locals.There were some baby ducks in the pond below the tree bitching for mommy, it made me laugh to see her swim back from the other side when they started calling her. We spent some time laying on one of the lawns then went in search of the Military magazine that's also located in the park. On the way to it we were treated with some spectacular views of Irish flora. The magazine was pretty awesome, classical location on top of a hill with a 360 degree view. I made James run up it shouting AARRRRG just for the hell of it, I giggled...a lot. While we were there some clouds started rolling in, crazy dark clouds and then next to them clear sunny blue patches...weather in Ireland is almost as fickle as Austins aparently.

<3
Amanda

(edit) - James on to CORK!!!

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Slade's Elucidation on June 24, 2008 from Dublin, Ireland

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Cork, Ireland

Today we boarded a train for Cork, stop 2 on our tour of Ireland. The train ride was awesome, got to see a lot of the country side from the comfort of dry cushy seats. It's crazy how many ruins there are here. Just random centuries old walls sticking up out of the pasture land, cemeteries that have the remains of old abbeys crumbling in the midst of them. Makes me sad to see such cool places in such disrepair, but to the Irish most of these sites are the norm...nothing spectacular. Cork looks pretty cool so far but as it's rather late we're saving most of the exploring for another day. We'll be here for three days before heading to Galway. Tomorrow's itinerary includes Blarney Castle, woot. Yall keep track, see if i sound more eloquent in the next blog.

Oh something fun to note, the lap top we acquired is very much a European version. Which means the keyboard is all sorts of funky. It's like playing Russian roulette trying to figure out which weird symbol will give you a comma or @ symbol ^_^.

More pics up too, a not so cool thing about this blog site is I cant post them in the actual blog and as far as I can tell organizing them into sub folders etc isn't possible.

Oh well, I'll try to make the titles as clear as possible and use the city to track which leg of the journey they are from.

<3!
Amanda

(edit) james figured something out.

ARRRRRRGGGG

Galway, Ireland

On our way to the pub so guna keep this short.

Blarney castle rocked. Somehow they’ve managed to keep it from getting too touristy. We tromped around the castle for a while, kissed the Stone, and went exploring the grounds.

The pictures do it way more justice than I could with words.

Blarney Castle

Tower at Blarney Castle

We’re currently in Galway, and went on a tour yesterday to the Cliffs of Moher and on a walking tour through The Burrens. The walk in the Burrens was on our guide’s family farm, the farm that’s been in his family for 200+ years. The Burrens is geographical part of Ireland that is characterized by large rolling hills made entirely out of limeStone. At first glance it kind of reminded me of enchanted rock back home…on closed inspection though there is a lot of vegetation growing in between cracks in the limeStone, which our guide explained was really fertile due to the calcium carbonate leaking out. Anyway, we got to learn about some of the flowers, history of the immediate area, and got in some good exercise to boot.

When we got to the Cliffs of Moher we we’re greeted by the cheery news that part of it was closed because someone had just jumped off the cliff…committing suicide. Setting that aside we enjoyed the amazing view even if it was a bit obscured due to the mist.

There’s a lot more to say but yeah, food and pubs a calling.

Oh by the way, James and I have been married 4 whole whopping years today. Happy Anniversary baby!

Amanda

p.s. I'll edit this with pics soon as I get a chance. probably after we head to Scotland tomorrow.

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Slade's Elucidation on June 29, 2008 from Galway, Ireland

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tagged Ireland, Cork, Galway, CliffsOfMoher and BlarneyCastle

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