After a crappy sleep due to being in a room with the world's loudest snorer, I woke up to the sound of church bells coming from somewhere off in the distance. I can't believe that the snoring sound was coming from a human, that shit can't be healthy... I was almost ready to hop out of my bunk and flick whoever was causing that unholy sound in the eye.... Whatever, breakfast sort of made up for the lack of sleep; it was the same old toast, jam and coffee or tea routine that we had already adapted to. After a quick breakfast we made like frogs and hopped down the obviously soaked streets to the bus station where we found our fully loaded bus to Blarney Castle.
We arrived in the town of Blarney after 15 minutes of standing on the bus and holding on for our lives... i would like to add now that the bus drivers, actually, all drivers here are on the loose. The Blarney Castle is located right in the town of Blarney, I'm gonna guess that they built the town around the castle, so we didn't have far to walk... I shouldn't have to tell you that it was still raining, c'mon. The Blarney Castle was amazing, everywhere you looked there were things engraved into the walls, there were even dates that I saw as far back as 1874. We climbed up the narrow stairwell to the top where the legendary Blarney Stone lays built into a wall.... apparently kissing this stone gives you eternal good luck. After we all made passionate love to the stone we went back down to earth where we found the most amazing terrain, I will compare it to a tropical forest for now. Basically we were surrounded by amazing mini waterfalls, lucious forests, strange super-rubarb and obviously the squishy ground. We found the wishing steps where you apprently have to walk up and back down backwards with your eyes closed in order for you wish to come true, so we did just that. I forgot the mention that Sheen and I lost the other two during our adventures do we did most of the castle ground exploring by ourselves... after we finished touring the site we were definitely nothing but a couple soggy mops so we got out of there and grabbed some soup and a baguette/croissant. After the quick bus ride home we grabbed some more pizza from the store and walked back home... uphill. My right shoe has some sort of mysterious cut right in the middle of it on the sole so I had a wet right foot all day, it was awesome to get out of those and into something dry. I will also give a shout out to my awesome family that purchased a kick ass rain coat for me before I left, it definitely saved the day(s).
This is my second attempt at creating an HDR photo... still not too sure how it works yet
I forgot to mention that you had to be on your back leaning backwards with some serious tilt to kiss the stone... this is Sheen slipping the stone some tongue
After supper I slept for a few hours and then we gathered in the kitchen for a quick last minute pizza before the kitchen shut down for the night. I guess that brings me to now where I sit here with a Snickers bar and a capuccino uploading todays photos. Tomorrow we're heading back to Dublin, unfortunately.
It would be for the best if the snoring person in our room didn't snore tonight.. acutally, it'd be best for them not to because tonight I may take action.
Cheers, as they say here
2 comments:
Man I love that your putting in the effort to update your blog just to let you know I am a totally faithfull reader. Its actually quite the experence to read this and look at your pictures being that I have never travelled. Awesome stuff and good pics I hope you bought a rain sleave for you camera.
ttyl
beautiful pictures dear! Has the luck kicked in yet? Kiss that stone looks slightly terrifying.
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