Ireland

Perhaps we missed out on the true Irish experience, but I gotta say... not my favorite place so far. Dublin had some nice sights like their City Hall, Christ Church, Trinity College and the Temple Bar neighborhood. We had a great time at the Guinness Brewery and found the city green spaces nice, but all in all the city was dirty and their public transport was a hassle (at least as far as getting to our hotel). How was our hotel you ask? Well, imagine a luxurious old hotel, quaint rooms, clean facilities and polite staff all neatly packaged into a nightclub!!! We read the reviews, people said it was loud because it had a bar downstairs but never, NEVER, did we imagine that it could be that loud. Oh well, live and learn right?











But, the highlight of our time in Ireland had to be Kissing the Blarney Stone in Blarney, just outside the city of Cork. Finally, I have the gift of gab :) The train took about 3 hours from Dublin and was and was a nice
escape from the city. We saw roughly 17,000 cows and 20,000 sheep, give or take. The Irish countryside is beautiful, too bad we couldn't spend more time there.













Well, that's all for now. We're in Madrid at the moment and have booked a day trip to Toledo tomorrow and will probably head south to some beaches and more sun after that, I'll have lots more to share about Spain soon.

Adios,
M (and M)