Having Fun

No pictures today as we have stopped at an internet cafe whilst we wait for our load of washing to finish. We haven't had access to use the internet on our own computer since we left London and the internet in the rooms we have had has been so expensive that we decided to wait so we have not been able to update anything until now.

We left London on Friday morning, picked up a hire car and hit the road for Wales. We stopped off at Stone Henge (or Stone Hedge if you listen to Riley) along the way and managed to make it in the gate just 10 minutes before closing time, we pretty well ran around the thing snapping pics along the way. Some of Riley's pics are quite interesting especially seeing as how he was more interested in the sheep in the neighbouring paddock. We staying in Wales on Friday and Saturday night. Wales was lovely and we spent a good deal of Saturday walking around the ruins of an old castle. It is so awesome to see the scale of the structure and to imagine what life would have been like in those times.

We left Wales on Sunday morning and hit the road for Heathrow airport where we caught a quick flight (about 45mins) to Dublin, Ireland. When we arrived we fronted to the hire car desk only to be told our booking had been cancelled and they could not hire us any cars. Hmmmmm didn't go down too well. Luckily the lady behind the counter looked into things a bit better for us and found that the booking had been moved to another company and she arranged for the voucher to be faxed to them. Phew, we were on our way again.

In Dublin, on Sunday night, we enjoyed a traditional Irish dinner and Brad got his fill of Guiness too (secretly I am sure he would have loved to have had more.....). The next morning was Brad's birthday and we were on the road for Gallway. We made a lot of stops along the way, including one to Summerhill where we checked out the last remains of Lynch's Castle. Not a lot to see especially seeing as how it was raining and we had to trespass onto private property and brave a 'guard bull' to get there but we managed to get a couple of pics. Yes father dearest you are welcome!

We arrived in Gallway to our B&B quite late in the evening (which is easy to do when at 8:45pm you are still needing your sunglasses to drive!) and so the next morning, Tuesday, after breakfast we headed into the town centre to see the next Lynch's Castle. This one is in much better shape and there were no bulls to speak of to have to get past, although it is now a bank so the bull reference could still be used when speaking of bank charges I suppose..... We almost got locked in the bank as they were doing a money transfer (at around lunch time - go figure.....). We took a heap of pics and a bit of video and then headed across the road to Lynch's Cafe for a coffee and some cake. Then on to Lynch's Window which was the sad scene of a hanging of a young Lynch by his own father who was the Mayor and magistrate of Gallway at the time. The very short version of the story is that the young Lynch had jealously murdered a man that he thought was trying to muscle in on his woman and then confessed the murder to his father. He went to trial and his father, having no choice, executed him for the crime.

Today we are heading to Kerry to stay at Ballyseede Castle (once our washing is done of course). We will update and hopefully add some pics as soon as we can.