Cork, Ireland was such a thrill and Rachel was a fantastic person to travel there with! :D
This pic always cracks me up, hehehe. We wanted to save money by not paying for checked luggage and therefore only had one carryone certain size and weight in which we could pack our stuff for 4 days!!! And we made it work and then went shopping for new clothes and still were able to fit it all in! I bought two lovely dresses, two pairs of shoes, sweater, shirt, and two books. However I did have to leave my umbrella as it just wouldn't fit at all!
After arriving in Dublin where we had a 3-4 hour layover, we walked down to the tourism office and asked where we could travel to outside the airport. The lady directed us to a bus, which took us to Swords, which had its own wee castle in the little park and lots of little pubs. We had our first taste of REAL guinness in Ireland!
Hehe I am so thrilled!
Part of the castle wall
GUINNESS IN DUBLIN!!!!
OUr little friend the ticket monkey
Dirty mouth!?! Clean it up!
Absolutely an AMAZING Irish breaky. Positively delish been so long since I have had baked beans!
The city was most definitely ALIVE!!! ;-)
Lots of pubs everywhere!
A Paulinor, lol, I know!!! It is a really yummy beer, rather sweet, but the funny thing is is that is comes from Germany, so instead of drinking Irish beer my first night in a Pub in Cork, here I am drinking a beer from Germany!
This night was hilarious! Rachel and I were having a lovely time laughing and giggling and at one point I looked up to make eye contact with a rather handsomely debonair Irish rugby player (found out later) and we winks and waves at me!!! Lol, so I ignored that because honestly I was so surprised, lol, and later that evening he comes to our hostel bar and literally sweeps me off my feet. ;-) He snuck up behind me and as I turned around picked me up and was carrying me around the bar, lol, much to the amusment of the other folks there.
Next morning, we made our way to the Blarney castle!
Hehehe, inside joke. We met our own Finnbarr . . . :-D
On the way up to the Cathedrale!
This cathedrale was GORGEOUS! When I walked in I was the only one in there at the beginning and it was indeed rather eerie. This is said to be the Notre Dame of Switzerland!
View from the Church. Lausanne is actually prettier from the shore viewing the lake then Geneva, or so I think. :-)
View from my hostel window, pretty alps!
Fountain and famous story telling clock, tells the story (in french) of the history of a certain Canton with little figurines coming out to help. Really cute.
There was an old Chateau that I found while walking around the old city a bit which I think was used for offices, but in the "front yard" were sheep with adorable little bells tinkleing as they ate grass!
