Well, it's officially been 2 weeks since I got back to the US. And those weeks went quickly - I'm all moved back into school now.
Whenever people ask how my travelling was, I pretty much always respond 'Amazing, I want to go back already.' And I do. I really hope it will work out at some point.
There's not really much more to say, but I didn't want to leave this blog without some sort of final post. If anyone is still reading this and wants more, I'm going to be doing a school blog. It won't be daily (I can pretty much guarantee that...) but anyway, if you want to, it's http://boilerup2014.blogspot.com/
Cheers,
-Carly Stenger
Saturday, August 20, 2011
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Celtic Touring
Yay for internet access! :D
We're in Galway right now, day one of our 3 day Ireland tour. I don't want to write out all that has happened since I last posted, so I'll share some highlights.
Scotland:
We flew into Edinburgh on Saturday afternoon and walked pretty much the entire length of Heathrow airport. My mom said she didn't know we were walking to Scotland...
When we were driving in from the airport, I was the only one with a decent map - from my guidebooks - so I was the navigator to our lunch. The book also recommended a burger place, so that's where we went. It was a cute little place and when we walked in, the CD that was plaing was Bob Marley - we liked it :D And the burgers were really good, even if I had to eat most of my veggie burger with a fork once it disintegrated.
Edinburgh Castle was quite the impressive sight - up on top of a cliff-hill.
The next day, we drove to Inverness - a city in the Highlands. My mom and I read a series of books set in the Highlands, so we were excited :D
We only stayed in Inverness for a night - the next day we went back to Edinburgh to fly to Dublin. We planned to have some time to walk around Edinburgh for our flight and wanted to see the Elephant House - where JK Rowling wrote the first Harry Potter book.
What we didn't plan for was the insane amout of people that had arrived in the day we were gone. It took us a while to finally find the cafe, and we couldn't stop so my dad dropped us off to take pictures while he circled the block.
An hour and a half later, my mom and I were on the phone with the police to see if there had been an accident when my Uncle Mike came to tell us that my dad had made it back. Half the streets were blocked off, so he had been diverted left and right until he was on the opposite side of town and completely lost.
With that lovely delay, we didn't make it to the airport in time to check in to our flight, so we missed it. At least we didn't have to be anywhere that night. Besides, we're on vacation :D
We got booked on the next flight to Dublin - which was at 7.50 - and went to wait in the pub that we could get to before going through security. Our original flight was at 3.20, so we had a bit of time to stall and decided to eat some dinner.
Ireland:
Our next planned trip was to Waterford, Ireland the next day (yesterday). My Aunt Kelly works for Waterford, so it was fun to see the factory in Waterford. We got to see the Cinderella carriage that took 4 months to make - and it was only €25000 since we weren't EU citizens (v. the €30000 it would be if we were), so my mom and I thought we should go for it ;] My dad didn't agree for some reason...
We also went to the Guinness Storehouse once we were back in Dublin. That was pretty cool to see - and my dad enjoyed it. We all got to taste a little bit about halfway through, and then all the over 18s got a pint with our ticket. My mom doesn't like beer (that might be a bit of an understatement...) and I had a headache so I didn't want to drink very much of mine, so my dad got 2.5 :]
Then it was time for our tour to start - we got up pretty early today so we could get to the pick up place. I took a two hour nap and woke up in time to hear our guide singing a bunch of songs - evidently Galway girls will break a man's heart, Brown-haired girls are awesome (obviously :D) and Patty had a tough time hauling bricks so he wrote to his boss to explain why he wasn't at work.
Holy sheep. They're everywhere!
We got to walk on an Irish bog - there are a lot of bogs here, and they use the turf to fuel fires. That was pretty cool - really spongy too.
And now we're chilling in our hostel in Galway and enjoying the internet :] While walking around, some stores had different opening hours on different days, and the only reason I know what day it is is because my watch tells me. My mom and I both love being on vacation :D
Tomorrow we go to Kilarnney, then back to Dublin the next day, and then it's home again home again. If I have internet again, I'll update again :]
Till then,
-Carlito
We're in Galway right now, day one of our 3 day Ireland tour. I don't want to write out all that has happened since I last posted, so I'll share some highlights.
Scotland:
We flew into Edinburgh on Saturday afternoon and walked pretty much the entire length of Heathrow airport. My mom said she didn't know we were walking to Scotland...
When we were driving in from the airport, I was the only one with a decent map - from my guidebooks - so I was the navigator to our lunch. The book also recommended a burger place, so that's where we went. It was a cute little place and when we walked in, the CD that was plaing was Bob Marley - we liked it :D And the burgers were really good, even if I had to eat most of my veggie burger with a fork once it disintegrated.
Edinburgh Castle was quite the impressive sight - up on top of a cliff-hill.
The next day, we drove to Inverness - a city in the Highlands. My mom and I read a series of books set in the Highlands, so we were excited :D
We only stayed in Inverness for a night - the next day we went back to Edinburgh to fly to Dublin. We planned to have some time to walk around Edinburgh for our flight and wanted to see the Elephant House - where JK Rowling wrote the first Harry Potter book.
What we didn't plan for was the insane amout of people that had arrived in the day we were gone. It took us a while to finally find the cafe, and we couldn't stop so my dad dropped us off to take pictures while he circled the block.
An hour and a half later, my mom and I were on the phone with the police to see if there had been an accident when my Uncle Mike came to tell us that my dad had made it back. Half the streets were blocked off, so he had been diverted left and right until he was on the opposite side of town and completely lost.
With that lovely delay, we didn't make it to the airport in time to check in to our flight, so we missed it. At least we didn't have to be anywhere that night. Besides, we're on vacation :D
We got booked on the next flight to Dublin - which was at 7.50 - and went to wait in the pub that we could get to before going through security. Our original flight was at 3.20, so we had a bit of time to stall and decided to eat some dinner.
Ireland:
Our next planned trip was to Waterford, Ireland the next day (yesterday). My Aunt Kelly works for Waterford, so it was fun to see the factory in Waterford. We got to see the Cinderella carriage that took 4 months to make - and it was only €25000 since we weren't EU citizens (v. the €30000 it would be if we were), so my mom and I thought we should go for it ;] My dad didn't agree for some reason...
We also went to the Guinness Storehouse once we were back in Dublin. That was pretty cool to see - and my dad enjoyed it. We all got to taste a little bit about halfway through, and then all the over 18s got a pint with our ticket. My mom doesn't like beer (that might be a bit of an understatement...) and I had a headache so I didn't want to drink very much of mine, so my dad got 2.5 :]
Then it was time for our tour to start - we got up pretty early today so we could get to the pick up place. I took a two hour nap and woke up in time to hear our guide singing a bunch of songs - evidently Galway girls will break a man's heart, Brown-haired girls are awesome (obviously :D) and Patty had a tough time hauling bricks so he wrote to his boss to explain why he wasn't at work.
Holy sheep. They're everywhere!
We got to walk on an Irish bog - there are a lot of bogs here, and they use the turf to fuel fires. That was pretty cool - really spongy too.
And now we're chilling in our hostel in Galway and enjoying the internet :] While walking around, some stores had different opening hours on different days, and the only reason I know what day it is is because my watch tells me. My mom and I both love being on vacation :D
Tomorrow we go to Kilarnney, then back to Dublin the next day, and then it's home again home again. If I have internet again, I'll update again :]
Till then,
-Carlito
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