Saturday September 13th 2008

This morning we enjoyed our last breakfast in Dublin at our less-than-awesome hostel because today we headed out of the capital on our way to Cork. We boarded our bus at the bus station at 12:30 and took off to enjoy the great views that the Irish countryside has to offer. Everything is just so green, I could go on about it but it would not do it any justice... it's just beautiful. There were a whole lot of sheep chillin out on the rolling hills, they have some sort of little shrubbery that they hang out in... it looks like a little tree shack... very different. A lot of cows here too, y'know, just grazing around.

We stopped along the way at some gas station where they had a Wimpy burger shop... it's basically a B-side MacDo with these crappy little burgers... with a name like Wimpy Sheen and I obviously had to try one of their burgers... the name says it all

We arrived in Cork at about 5:30 and found our hostel... it was fairly close but it was basically all uphill... no big deal for us fit fools. The Kinlay House Hostel RULES, this place is so great, the rooms are awesome, the people are so friendly and we have a solid wifi connection... rock on Kinlay House. Oh! After we settled in we picked up some stellar pizzas from some A-side Wal-Mart and baked them in our hostel's oven... We didn't do much today because we were all pretty worn out from the days before, all I did was do some bloggin and make some phone calls home. After a good online session I passed the keys off to Sheen so he could do some online work and I departed on my own towards the nearest place in Cork to get a coffee... After a decent walk in the never ending mist I found out that everything closes too damn early hear so I found a MacDo and got a surprisingly gnarly cappuccino and some fries... sorry, chips. I made my way back to find Sheen still goin at it internet style... we realised that we didn't have any plans for tomorrow and that Ryan and Brandice were out cold; so made some plans and booked a bus ticket for 5.60euro to Blarney castle. After a succesfull print-out of our ticket confirmation from the super friendly front desk homie, Sheen and I decided to go grab some late night MacDo... we're such slaves to the fast-food industry... but Irish beef is just to damn good.

To sum up Ireland so far: Dublin, the capital, is kind of a piece of shit and everyone is kind of funny looking. Cork, the second largest Irish city is amazing and everywhere you look there are very attractive Irish women with the most amazing accents... However, the rain just won't stop, and if it does there will probably still be a light mist comin down... what the hell

Another soggy goodnight... hmmm, I feel like i forgot to mention something from today...