My time is wrapping up here too fast! My mother arrived on Friday morning and we've been at full speed ever since. Literally... we rented a car and I've learned to dominate the left hand side of the road. Ba ha ha. We drove from Dublin to Ballycastle on Friday, spent the night at Corrymeela and got all my final goodbyes finished, drove to Derry and Donegal town on Saturday, and drove to Galway and Clare this afternoon. We've been almost all the way around the country in 3 days!
Wooo!
My mom decided it would be a good idea to get a GPS, which I fully support. The default setting we received was one with an American narrator which I had to immediately shut off. It sounded too funny in an American accent the words "carriageway" and "roundabout", etc. We now have a posh sounding British woman giving us directions.
My favourite part of our journey thus far was lunch in Derry (one of my favourite cities in Ireland), and the discovery of two of the most beautiful places I've ever seen. The first is a beach called Silver Strand. It's in SW Donegal and is surrounded by dramatic green cliffs with sheep roaming around. The second is the cliffs of Slieve Lieg, which is one of the highest seaside cliffs in all of Europe. On the horizon we could see the Iceland volcano's ash cloud slowly moving across the sky as well as a rainbow coming from it. Slightly eerie, and beautiful.
We are staying in the Bunratty Castle Hotel the next two nights, which I'm happy to say has internet :) Yay!
Also snaps for figuring out the timer on the camera :) :)
Cheers,
K
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