Ireland

Hey my peeps,

Well, a month has gone by since I was on the beautiful island of Ireland with my "bästis" Liz (as in bestest friend). Enough of the Swedish lesson.
As you can see there are no pictures. I am not quite clever enough to figure out how to get a picture from Liz's album to my blog, but I will send a link to the album and you will see Ireland 2007. There are 500 pictures for 10 days of travel, and that is the edited version. Lucky for me Liz has a clicky finger since I generally forget to take photos at all.

Here is the link: http://picasaweb.google.com/lilywilde

Let me know if you have problems. I will in the meantime beg Mathias to help me with my love/hate relationship with computers(mostly hate when they don't do what I want them to) and get some highlight pics up with a little explanation.

But a quick run through, we met in Dublin and took a train up to Northern Ireland, which is actually part of Great Brittan and uses the £. The rest of Ireland, or Republic of Ireland, uses the €.
It was gray and very windy but we only got light showers or drizzle. We went out to see the Giants Causeway which are all those hexagonal stones on the coast. We opted for the low road since it was so windy and were afraid we could be blown off a cliff, literally. We met a man later that day that nearly was.
Liz thought we should go to Bally Castle, but it turns out it was just the name of a town, bummer no castle. Pretty funny though and as we waited for the bus back to our B&B we had a pint of Guinness and listened to some locals talk. It was English, but nearly impossible to understand.
Then we headed back to Dublin, went to the Irish Museum of Modern Art, took a stroll up to James Joyce's tower, and Forty Foot-a famous (formerly gentlemen only) bathing place.
We saw Feist in concert in a small venue. Highly recommended to those who like their music. I do remember though it was so hot my little toes felt like boiled sausages.
We waffled about renting a car. I was kinda excited to drive on the "wrong side", but in the end we took a bus tour. It was nice to not have to do the driving, but as with a tour you perhaps can't stay as long as you want or stop randomly. The good thing is we got a lot of history and information we otherwise wouldn't have known.
First stop, 10am Whiskey brewery with a complimentary drink at the end. I hadn't actually eaten breakfast yet, so you can imagine. . . I felt pretty happy.
We stayed in a small town and checked out a spooky little graveyard just after sunset. There was an Irish ensemble that played that night. Very nice, not as lively as I had expected but beautiful.
We saw numerous ruins and castles, thousands of sheep, endless stones(seems everything is built of them), Dingle Peninsula (that's right Klinger-Dingle), Cliffs of Moher, Celtic Crosses, tonnes of stuff.
The weather was wonderful, even warm. Seems like they got all their rain in the summer. Quite some luck for us.
Eventually we ended back in Dublin. Took it easy, ate some sushi, did a little shopping. We had a sweet hotel room for the last couple days.
Oh, nearly forgot, I ate bacon and eggs nearly every morning until I thought I may cease up my heart. And the tea, like a train hitting my taste buds!!
The last stop before having to leave was Christ Church Cathedral. Very old, very very old, with hundreds of hand worked tiles and sculpture. Something to see if you're ever in Dublin.

So, there is the short version. What can I say?!