Ireland

Have spent this week touring around Ireland and have seen quite a bit.

Spent a day looking around Wicklow and Arklow, where some of Matt's family is originally from, a really beautiful and scenic area. Took us a little while to find his great, great grandfathers headstone at Glendalough, but found it relatively easy in the end, right near the main church!

Matt has been enjoying the country roads, specially when the speed limit is 100km!... though that requires concentration and can get tiring, so we mixed that up with some main road driving and just stopped wherever he got tired. The drive though has been great, everything is very green (apparently that's cause it always rains here, but we haven't seen any!) and scenic, lots of tractors, including on the motorways... and lots of pubs of course.

We've stayed in a mix of B&Bs, some great, some not so... my favourite was the one where the room was decorated all in pink and florals... very pretty!!!

The Rock of Cashel was really interesting, amazing to think that the buildings have been there since the 11th Century

Visited, and kissed the Blarney stone this morning... wasn't expecting to have to lie on my back over the edge of the castle though to have to do it!... apparently this will give us the gift of eloquence from now on... we'll see! At least we were the first ones there this morning, so hopefully the mist on the stone made it relatively clean?!! All I could think of was how many people must have done this before me!