Exploring the Motherland!

Day 1: July 29, DUBLIN!

What are we excited for?!?!?!?

Trying to navigate the city with no sleep..zzzz....

Dublin is one of the places I have never been, but wanted to go badly when I was living in Barcelona previously. Blythe on the other hand is seeing all these cities for the first time! Everything went smoothly getting here, we arrived to Dublin 520am. Nothing was open, therefore, we were concerned no one lived in Dublin.... no worries a few hours later the city was popping with plenty of activity!

Our hostel was 2 buildings down from the famous Temple Bar!

We stumbled upon our hostel by chance, since we didn't have a proper map. We dropped off our bags in a small storage closet, but couldn't check in until the afternoon. Therefore, we had a full day of exploring and sightseeing!

July 30, 2015- The Edge of the World!

Today was packed full with a tour to the Cliffs of Moher. We jumped on a huge couch bus at 630am and took off. Our tour guide was a short, red headed Irish leprechaun looking man. He was hilarious and an excellent tour guide- very flirty with the older ladies.

The Cliffs were breath-taking, pictures do not do justice. It is very scary how close you can get to the cliffs and how people jumped over the 'safety' fence to get even closer to the ledge. We had wonderful weather full of sunshine and blue skies and while is rained multiple times during the day, our tour guide had prefect timing of when we were walking around and when we were driving.

The countryside is lovely, cows EVERYWHERE! And remains of castle towers everywhere you turn, it was bizarre because our guide would say, "to the right a 19th century castle tower, right next to cows just laying around'...

On the way back to Dublin, we stopped by the Clare Abbey. Founded in 1195, there were multiple graves within the ruined abbey because it was sacred grounds and it was a privilege to be buried on holy ground.

Clare Abbey 1195

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