What a busy day…started quite early in the morning like 4:30 am (local time) and considering that was only a total of 2 hours sleep, oh brother…
Today’s adventures started with a day trip booked to Glendalough and Kilkenny.
http://www.glendalough.ie/
http://www.kilkennycastle.ie/en/
Discovery that compliments go a long way and that travelling on your own especially when you are extremely extroverted is probably an advantage.
Met several people on the bus including 3 Spaniards, 5 Americans and 3 Germans and no that was not everyone on the bus there were a few more but being the only Aussie it was advantageous.
Learnt that Spaniards like to study abroad and International Corporate Studies is highly desirable in a foreign country…and there are Masters in Art at Finland that his gf was studying…the person next to me Angela (who I thought pronounced it Andy…She was actually saying Angee) lives in Majorca and is interesting we hung around pretty much all day and discovered that se works in HR but wants to combine that with Social Work...when I asked what that is she stated that she likes placing people who have been long term unemployed and she has no bias as to where from and were to...Although, Majorca is her market place. Interestingly enough she didn’t know who Christopher Skase was…I guess he has been dead for a while and the Spaniards couldn’t give a flaming flying Funk about who he was…Good to know that they will let you be!
There was another spot that was clearly fascinating our driver/tour guide about 150 tonnes rock that is in the middle of a field…Photos attached…I am sure he even referenced the pyramids and some Aztec temples to it…Personally, I don’t understand the comparison but you decide…It is also amusing how there were the numerous facts thrown in along the tour.
The funniest shit was how he was talking about a rock festival and he was disappointed the American rapper J-ZED headed the line up acts (to which all the Americans pissed themselves lol…hahahaha…to his embarrassment he automatically put on U2, sadly it was from 1991 and started it out with DESI IIIIRE
So if being on a bus from 8:30 – 6:30 (with the exception of 4 hours walking around) wasn’t enough torture I was led promptly on another bus by PatRice and off we went to Johnnie Foxes http://www.jfp.ie/
… woo hoo the menu looked spectacular and the pints were flowing too easily…and the Irish music was playing not to mention the artefacts laying outside that pub were fabulous… Well all in all I might state that I just have picked the bad menu and I was exhausted by 10…but after a shot of tequila and a coupe of scotched and by my fourth pint I was on good form.
I have to say I am as always very impressed by Patrice’s singing…my surprise was Joe Thompson’s rendition of beautiful folk songs especially “The Black Velevt Band” and he was bloody good…I said earlier that travelling on your own has its advantages but having local friends is fantastic and I thoroughly enjoyed being awake for 23 hours with loads of drinking…superb fun and new friends as well as old friends around…
Oh yeah, best news of the night was Arsenal drawing 3-3 with Spurs to send them to third spot rather than challenge for The EPL ☺
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