Sidetrips

Oi,

No internet in the last few hostels.

I'm sitting in a window seat overlooking Galway Bay as the sun glitters over the rippling surface. Today we meet a relative--FINALLY!--as we leave Kinvara and drive north to the city of Galway.

Yesterday .... Yesterday I decided to ignore the itinerary and we left the Dingle Peninsula, traipsing through the mountains on a precarious path called Connor Pass. We ditched the car and went climbing with the sheep and stumbled upon a waterfall and a lake.

We also had to replace our tire *finally*. We've been driving around with a nail stuck in it (hehe) thinking it was just a slow leak and we could do with filling it up every now and then. Come to find out the whole thing has a crack, rendering the stupid thing un-salvageable.

Is that a word?

Our drive through the Dingle Peninsula the day before yesterday was beautiful. We took a detour out to Valentia Island and spent an hour beachcombing for broken pieces of painted pottery.



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We've all assimilated different roles on this trip:
I'm the driver, Colleen is the navigator, and Bre makes us nutella and bread in the back seat. Yesterday she made egg salad sandwiches (a real treat!). A few days ago, they both fell asleep, so I was without my navigator AND without my food. I was feeling sleepy and we were driving through the middle of (nowhere) as usual and I kept seeing signs for "ancient stone circle.' After the third time of seeing this sign, I finally decided I had to figure out what it was all about. Colleen woke up when the GPS started his panicked "Recalculating..." (which alwys means I've taken a wrong turn) and Bre woke up ten minutes later in the middle of a field of sheep.

She was very upset with Colleen's lack of babysitting skills..

At any rate, we drove to the end of the road only to find a house and a bunch of rocks all over the hill side.

The "ancient stone circle" ended up being three stones haphazardly strewn about a person's front yard. Sheep were grazing at the base of the monument.

Ridiculous.

Needless to say, the girls have been hesitant to doze off again.

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Must wake them up! Checkout is 10am.

Slan