Hello everyone :-) I am still alive and breathing, but just AWFULLY busy with programming my 3D game. Right now I have absolutely enough of rolling balls and square frogs and so I decided it is about high time I wrote about the absolutely awesome road trip we did a week ago on Saturday!
Two days before the trip we spontaneousely decided to go to Connemara. Grace, Jo, Cian and me, all computer science people :-). We left VERY early... at 7am Grace was picked up (lol, we had to find her first) and then we picked up Jo, who - to everyones utter astonishment - actually was at the Luas station :-). So the 4 of us headed west in Cian's car, some fell asleep ;-) and others enjoyed the sun coming out to greet us!
After about 2hours we had reached the suburbs of Galway and headed noth-west into Connemara. The road was windy and hilly and soonish some people were not feeling that great anymore (*lol*), so we made our first stop near a very scenic lake. There was a stone wall and we all - except for Grace - climbed over it, some more gracefully than others... Thanks for the gentlemen I made it to the other side unharmed ;-). We saw some sheep and Jo tried to catch one of them rather unsuccessfully... *grin*. It was really cold and so we did only take a few pictures (check out the b&w from Cian, they're awesome).
Here on of mine...
After that we continued along the twisties and came to this fjord near Leenane... Looks really nice: A Picture for you!
After a short break outside the car we were all happy to get back inside... damn, it was cold! We continued a bit inland I think towards a waterfall! When you look on the picture below, the street is towards the left side, at the back... So we set out to walk to the waterfall... It looked quite easy at first, but just have a closer look at the "path" it's not really a path and it was muddy in a lot of places or non-existant in others. Well, anyway, I luckily had two gentlemen with me and they were mostly amazingly helpful in getting me to jump from one stone to the other really close to the river :-). Grace gave up halfway through unfortunately :-(...
So here you can see Jo and me on TOP of the waterfall, perfectly safe to do that... Ehm, what did it say in the beginning... "Do not climb on the falls. To do so could result in fatality." ~ Bord Iascaigh Mhara
But I mean it's just too tempting :-). So with wet and muddy shoes and dirty pants we made it to the top of the waterfall and took some cool pictures! After that we made our way back somehow and lucky me had another set of "shoes" in the car :-). But that little mini-adventure was absolutely a highlight of the day!
After the waterfalls we set out to a beach, no idea where it was or what it's called ;-). My informant has somehow vanished from facebook... *grin*. So here you see the 3 people in black, Cian, Jo and Grace... I was too bloody freezing and my "shoes" where not really suitable for sand...
Next we continued towards Letterfrack and somewhere on the way saw a sign to Kylemore Abbey... So we went and checked it out, but only from the outside, entre fees where exhorbitant even for students.
After Kylemore it was already after 2pm and we were all starving... So in Letterfrack we went into a pub and ordered some lunch :-). I got a warm chicken and bacon salad with honey mustard dressing, was absolutely amazing... Don't really know if because i was starved by the time it came or because it really was great. And then we continued towards Clifden and the apparently famous sky road! When we arrived there the sun was out and it was the most amazing, stunning, breath-taking view ever! I could not stop taking pictures, until my camera battery died :-(.
The 3 exchange students on the sky road!
After that we drove to Galway and into the city center. After somehow having managed to find an expensive parking space we got out and walked around a bit :-). It was sometime after 5pm methinks... There was a biiig Christmas market with a lot of little stands and we had a look at it. Then went to the "main shopping road" with all the nice, but just inappropriately early hung up Christams decoration. It was quite nice! After some tiem we went back to the car and drove back to Dublin where we all had Tacos at my place :-).
So yes, that was an abolutely amazing and wonderful day!
For absolutely amazing pictures by Cian see:
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