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| rainbow :-) |
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| lake in front of Muckross House and SUN :-) |
I am back from my Killarney Trip and I have to tell you, it was absolutely amazing... I totally loved it :-).
There is soooo much I would love to tell, it's already 11pm and I am pretty tired, but I guess I'll just start while my pictures are getting loaded onto the computer... I can tell you how many picture I took in a second... *waiting* It's 434, crazy and I'll have to sort them out first...
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| Celia and me in our room :-) |
Well, lets start from the beginning. We left on Friday at around 6pm from Trinity College and headed south in 2 buses. I was on bus number 1 with the cool busdriver Pasquale. There was sooooo much traffic on the 3-lane motorway, everyone seemed to have the same plans as us... So we did take longer than planned and arrived a bit before midnight in Killarney. There we distributed the rooms and me and Celia got one of the few double rooms :-). Put our stuff in the room and went out to the pub, or rather the night club.
We did not stay there very long... After having one pint of Guinness soak most of our clothes and having our stuff searcher by some random people,... we just didn't enjoy it that much anymore. We went back to the hostel, talked a bit and eventually fell asleep.
The next morning we woke up and first thing first... had a look out of the window... It wasn't raining, but it didn't look very promising. After a nice breakfast we eventually left towards Dingle Bay. It was a nice drive along a really scenic route and the weather made it all the more interesting... rain, sun, dribble, stormy rain, sun... and loads of RAINBOWS... I tell you, I was rainbow hunting :-) with the camera and I got soooo many! I even saw a perfect 180% one and it was even a double one! YAY, I was in paradise. But that was throughout the day.
Eventually we arrived at Blasket Heritage Center... It's a museum dedicated to the people of Blasket Island... which is an island off the coast of Dingle. The amazing thing about the island is that a lot of really good (apparently) books were written by the blasket island people. But the island has been evacuated a couple of decades ago. In general the museum was rather boring to be honest and I was glad when we left again.
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| Celia, Arne and me in front of Blasket island... really windy |
Pasquale took the scenic route back to Dingle and me always sitting in the front seat (yeah, you all know why, lol) I got the best view :-). The road was pretty adventurous at times and I was glad that our bus driver was great... There was once even a stream flowing over the road :-). In Dingle, which is a pretty small village with not a lot there, I had some lunch with a couple other students and we took a few pictures of the harbour... Once we got on the bus it started pouring down again. After this we left for Tralee and the County Kerry museum.
As an explanation... Killarney is the main town of couty Kerry. The museum was really good, but we only had 1 hour to look at it, which was pretty tight. So I didn't get to see everything I would have like to see. After that we drove back to Killarney.
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| Charlotte and me in front of St. Mary Church |
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| the "hiking" group |
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| the deer :-) |
Once back at the hostel some of us had the great idea to go and explore Killarney (not that it's a big city *smile*) and also walk a bit into the national park (which is huuuuge). So we had a look at St. Marys Catherdral, which was really beautiful... It was made out of stone and just looked amazing. After that we went for a great walk in the park. We hear dear and some of us, two guys, Charlotte and me went to have a closer look at the deer... Finally we found them on a big lawn and there were sooo many of them :-). It was already getting dark, so we didn't get any good pictures, but we saw them very good. There was the male deer and he had huge antlers. We also got pretty close to them. It was an amazing experience. When walking back towards town we had a great view of the night sky with the full moon and the illuminated church top.
At the hostel we got some Spaghetti Carbonara cooked by some nice italian guys and after that we went to a pub where an Irish band was playing live music. It was really enjoyable. As I was really tired I went back at around midnight while some of the others went to the night club. Apart from some guys coming back to the hostel really really drunk the night was quiet.
So the next morning me and Celia got up at 8.15, had a look out of the window and there was NO cloud to be seen, then we also had the clever idea to go eat breakfast in our pyjamas while everyone else of the group was still sleeping or dressing. So we enjoyed a rather quiet breakfast and went back to dress and pack eveything (I packed in 1 min ;-)). Eager to hit the road we finally left at about 9:45 (temperature was 2°, it was freezing cold!!!) and headed towards some Caves... Ehm crac caves or something... *looking it up* Yeah Crag Caves. To be honest it was nice and sweet, but just nothing compared to some of the caves I've been to in the south of France. We drove back towards Killarney and headed to the Killarney National Park. All the way we had SUN and the view was just amazing... I took so many pictures out of the bus... just hope they look ok... At the park we left the bus and headed towards a waterfall, Torc Waterfall. It was y bit of a walk, but soooo beautiful. We walked up along the stream and through forest, it was sooo green! I'm not sure if I just notice that it's so green because I know that's what it's supposed to be in Ireland or because it really is this green... Anyways... The waterfall was really nice and we kept on walking uphill... until we reached this amazing place with this absolutely breathtaking view over the whole National Park with the big Lake (with the apparently bad monster in it, can't be bothered to look up the name). I could have stayed there the whole day!
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| stream below the Torc Waterfall |
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| Torc Waterfall |
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| view from the lower level |
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| view from the upper level |
After a while we walked back down and towards the lake we just saw from above and then towards Muckross House, which is this absolutely stunning estate. There we had some lunch (really really really looooong queue) and later we had a guided tour through the house, which was great. Then we had about 30 minutes left to do what we wanted, so me and some others walked through the Gardens belonging to the house. At 4.30 pm we were back at the bus... but 2 people were missing and bus 1 (my bus) had to wait for 30 min until they showed up... then we drove off towards Dublin.
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| nice view :-) |
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| Muckross House |
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| The lake and the SUN |
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| secret garden |
It was the most scenic drive ever. The weather was till stunning and the view was so great I couldn't stop looking. So while pretty much everyone else fell asleep I was just gazing out of the window and admiring everything :-). It kept getting darker and the sky was all colours, but not in a very bright way... it was more like the whole sky was a faded rainbow! And then the moon came up... this big perfect round yellowish shape and it was right in front of us for most of the drive home. We drove without a break and made it in 4 hours and 20 minutes (there was a toilet on board) and luckily the nice Taiwanese girl Ko had some nice cookies, so I survived :-). Back in Dublin we stopped at Trinity and as the bus driver was going back towards Heuston station anyway he took me along and dropped me off there. The Luas came 1 minute late and so I was home soon :-).
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| picture of the moon on the motorway (that's what it's supposed to be!) |
Ok, that was it from my great trip... It's impossible to describe how awesome it was in words, you really have to see it, but I'm not sure if there ever will be such a beautiful day again ;-).
Oh, and tomorrow is Bank Holiday here, don't ask me why, don't ask me why it's called that way... I don't care, it just means I have another free day. And the best of it all, Cian will be back tomorrow :-).
So I wish you all a great next week!
The next morning we woke up and first thing first... had a look out of the window... It wasn't raining, but it didn't look very promising. After a nice breakfast we eventually left towards Dingle Bay. It was a nice drive along a really scenic route and the weather made it all the more interesting... rain, sun, dribble, stormy rain, sun... and loads of RAINBOWS... I tell you, I was rainbow hunting :-) with the camera and I got soooo many! I even saw a perfect 180% one and it was even a double one! YAY, I was in paradise. But that was throughout the day.
Pasquale took the scenic route back to Dingle and me always sitting in the front seat (yeah, you all know why, lol) I got the best view :-). The road was pretty adventurous at times and I was glad that our bus driver was great... There was once even a stream flowing over the road :-). In Dingle, which is a pretty small village with not a lot there, I had some lunch with a couple other students and we took a few pictures of the harbour... Once we got on the bus it started pouring down again. After this we left for Tralee and the County Kerry museum.
Once back at the hostel some of us had the great idea to go and explore Killarney (not that it's a big city *smile*) and also walk a bit into the national park (which is huuuuge). So we had a look at St. Marys Catherdral, which was really beautiful... It was made out of stone and just looked amazing. After that we went for a great walk in the park. We hear dear and some of us, two guys, Charlotte and me went to have a closer look at the deer... Finally we found them on a big lawn and there were sooo many of them :-). It was already getting dark, so we didn't get any good pictures, but we saw them very good. There was the male deer and he had huge antlers. We also got pretty close to them. It was an amazing experience. When walking back towards town we had a great view of the night sky with the full moon and the illuminated church top.
So the next morning me and Celia got up at 8.15, had a look out of the window and there was NO cloud to be seen, then we also had the clever idea to go eat breakfast in our pyjamas while everyone else of the group was still sleeping or dressing. So we enjoyed a rather quiet breakfast and went back to dress and pack eveything (I packed in 1 min ;-)). Eager to hit the road we finally left at about 9:45 (temperature was 2°, it was freezing cold!!!) and headed towards some Caves... Ehm crac caves or something... *looking it up* Yeah Crag Caves. To be honest it was nice and sweet, but just nothing compared to some of the caves I've been to in the south of France. We drove back towards Killarney and headed to the Killarney National Park. All the way we had SUN and the view was just amazing... I took so many pictures out of the bus... just hope they look ok... At the park we left the bus and headed towards a waterfall, Torc Waterfall. It was y bit of a walk, but soooo beautiful. We walked up along the stream and through forest, it was sooo green! I'm not sure if I just notice that it's so green because I know that's what it's supposed to be in Ireland or because it really is this green... Anyways... The waterfall was really nice and we kept on walking uphill... until we reached this amazing place with this absolutely breathtaking view over the whole National Park with the big Lake (with the apparently bad monster in it, can't be bothered to look up the name). I could have stayed there the whole day!
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