At breakfast this morning I talked to Jaan, an Australian guy. He works at a hostel and a tourist office in Dublin and because of that he can go on tours for free, just like me. He told me that he was planning to go on a city tour through Dublin and asked me to go with him:)! I didn't have any plan for today, so I immediately said yes.
It was a great tour. The bus-driver was extremely funny and told us a lot about the history of Dublin.
Monday, 6th of May
The inevitable happened... I had to go to the airport to say goodbye to my boyfriend again... Fortunately it's not for a long time, I'll be back in the Netherlands in only three weeks! Time really flies. At the beginning of this trip I can remember several times that I wished I could take the next plane back. Right now I want to stay longer than three weeks... I met so many interesting, friendly people and made some true friends here... I'm definitely going to miss them... When I'm back I'm not going to be homesick but hostelsick, I'm afraid.
Back to today. The saying goodbye part wasn't easy, but it was easier as the first time for me. I knew that when I left the airport I would come 'home' to a whole bunch of people I care about. And I had something planned for tonight to keep myself occupied. The plan was to go to a comedy night in a pub. Regrettably this stayed a plan, because the pub didn't do comedy night because it was Monday and a bank-holiday... So we went to Sin É instead.
Back to today. The saying goodbye part wasn't easy, but it was easier as the first time for me. I knew that when I left the airport I would come 'home' to a whole bunch of people I care about. And I had something planned for tonight to keep myself occupied. The plan was to go to a comedy night in a pub. Regrettably this stayed a plan, because the pub didn't do comedy night because it was Monday and a bank-holiday... So we went to Sin É instead.
Sunday, 5th of June
Waking up in another city as Dublin, that's nice for a change! Galway is a nice city, it's very small if you compare it to Dublin. We started our day with a nice breakfast at the hostel, we dropped our luggage and made a nice, long walk along the coastline of Galway. Halfway through our walk we encountered something strange. A peculiar thing was happening in the water. "It looks like water polo", was Dirk's first reaction. It did look like water polo, except for one thing... The players were in canoes!
It was hilarious to watch. The players were fanatic and over-enthusiastic, which resulted in clashing, toppling and crashing canoes. It's quite friendly though! We asked one of the referees what the sport's called and he said: Canoe-polo.Hmm, we could have figured that out...;) It turned out that the Dutch canoe polo team is pretty good. The actually won the World Championship a couple of times! I'm amazed....
After this spectaculair experience we ate fish and chips and went back to Dublin. Back at the hostel I wanted to show Dirk the amazing Irish music in the Sin É. He loved it. It is something you won't easily forget!
It was hilarious to watch. The players were fanatic and over-enthusiastic, which resulted in clashing, toppling and crashing canoes. It's quite friendly though! We asked one of the referees what the sport's called and he said: Canoe-polo.Hmm, we could have figured that out...;) It turned out that the Dutch canoe polo team is pretty good. The actually won the World Championship a couple of times! I'm amazed....
After this spectaculair experience we ate fish and chips and went back to Dublin. Back at the hostel I wanted to show Dirk the amazing Irish music in the Sin É. He loved it. It is something you won't easily forget!
Saturday, 4th of June
5.45am, that's the time that my alarm went of this morning. It was for a good cause though, we went on a tour to the Cliffs of Moher today! We met up with the owner of the tour company at the Tourist Office in Dublin and after a quick explanation of the day we jumped on the bus to Galway. After 2,5 hours we arrived in Galway and hopped on the next bus in the direction of the Cliffs.
"You'll see real cows and sheep and maybe even a couple of baby-sheep", the busdriver announced. In Barneveld Dirk and I practically live on a farm, so no surprises there;) So the first stop on the way was a farm. We looked at the feeding of the baby-sheeps and baby-cow. Two of the guys on the farm gave us a walking tour in the Burren mountains. We had a spectaculair view of the landscape of Ireland when we were on the top of the mountains. The sun was out all day which made it amazing.
We enjoyed a cup of tea/coffee at the farm and waited for the bus to bring us to the Cliffs of Moher. The cliffs are astonishing. I've never seen anything like it. I'll upload pictures of it soon, I promise!:) We walked along the pathway of the cliffs until a huge sign told us that we couldn't walk any further because there was danger ahead of us. This sign didn't impress some people and they climbed over the barrier and strolled along. The dangerous part of it was that there was no barrier to the edge of the cliff...
After 1,5 hours we headed back to Galway with the bus. My manager arranged it for us to stay in a hostel in Galway that night. The hostel was not impressive. The shower was hardly working, or as Dirk stated it: "It was like an old man peeing on your head". Besides that there is a pub right next to the hostel and a band started playing exactly when we tried to sleep... Fortunately we were both too tired to care and we fell asleep anyway.
We enjoyed a cup of tea/coffee at the farm and waited for the bus to bring us to the Cliffs of Moher. The cliffs are astonishing. I've never seen anything like it. I'll upload pictures of it soon, I promise!:) We walked along the pathway of the cliffs until a huge sign told us that we couldn't walk any further because there was danger ahead of us. This sign didn't impress some people and they climbed over the barrier and strolled along. The dangerous part of it was that there was no barrier to the edge of the cliff...
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