Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Ireland: where the roads are made for bikes

This is my favorite picture that I took, so I want it to be the first thing you see on this post
My favorite parts of the trip were the cliffs of Moher, scenery, and the cemeteries. Here is a list of every place that we went to. 
Rainy Day, Beautiful
Got my shoes muddy for this one, worth it?
We think this is the oldest bridge in Dublin
Yellow house
      1.     St. Patrick’s Cathedral
  2.     Christ Church
  3.     Trinity College
  4.     Bridge
  5.     Rock of Cashel
  6.     Blarney Castle
  7.     Blarney House
  8.     Garden
  9.     Ashford Castle
  10. Galway
11. Latin Quadrant
12. Nimois Quay
13. Cong
14. Quiet man Cottage
15. Abby
16. Ruins
17. Rock Roads
Road
18. Baby sheep
                                           I would let you 
I really liked the houses here
     know that if you are going to Ireland keep in mind that most of their restaurants do not have condiments.  So bring your ketchup with you.  There are also no shopping bags at stores, no hand sanitizers.  The only big advertisements I saw was for Game of Thrones 
and some Irish history thing. They were on the sides of buildings I saw no billboards.  It was quite a shock for someone who grew up in Chicago.
Tree
Angles are amazing, also my dad
       I went there on Tuesday afternoon and left Saturday morning.  So I wasn't there for too long.  It only rained one day while I was there.  People lied to me! I was promised rain.  There were a lot of beautiful birds.  I actually saw a bird and said come here come here.  It did it was
Windows
     coming so close to me I didn't know what to do so I ran, I upset the bird because he flapped his wings angrily.  That's the first time a bird actually came close to me when I told it to.  Well, not my pet birds but you know what I mean...  Oh, in Ireland they are very friendly with allergies a lot more than Japan.  Their grocery stores had a proper selection of gluten free products.  Tesco's had about the same selection as a super Walmart.  I forgot the other store but it was in a town outside of blarney's castle.  It actually had gluten free cupcakes, with cream in it; for almost 3 euro no less!  Oh we went to a gas station restaurant and they
A walkway, looks like a road though
Cemetary
     gave us a second fish and chips meal, because the first one was all ugly.  All of the castles were absolutely beautiful.  My favorite part was the cemeteries.  I like cemeteries because you can be around people but it isn't awkward.  They might be dead but you know how it is. People die.  I got to hold some random statue girls hand, I don't even know who she is. I am 
Beautiful building
holding her hand?! 
Top of Blarney Castle
      I added a few of my favorite pictures, I would like to know what your favorite pictures are if you don't mind.  Just describe it or something.  I got to pick what country I wanted to go to, I first said Hong Kong.  My mom told me that I had to think more Europe.  I didn’t even think I just said 
Sheep
Ireland.  I have always wanted to go to Ireland, because it so gosh darn beautiful.  However, if you want to go, go at the end of April or the beginning of May.  
     When I went all the trees were still in Winter mode, and have not yet blossomed.  We spent a lot of time in the car.  I slept in the car, which is something that I hardly ever do.  We woke up each morning eating oatmeal.  Every hotel that we went to had a kettle. 
Moss on a bridge
    Which is something I have never seen in the states before.  They are pretty convenient, you can make oatmeal, hot cide, ramen.  You know all the important things.  So St. Patrick's cathedral was really cool.  I met a Chaplain, I didn't know what 
Is this your house
     a Chaplin was so I first thought of Charlie Chaplin.   I noticed in Ireland they have a lot of religious artifacts around their towns.  A chaplain is a member of the clergy attached to a private chapel, institution, ship, branch of the armed forces, etc.  I also recently learned that IRA doesn't stand for International Rifle Association, it also stands for Irish Republican Army.  This formatted weird, but I wanted to add all of my favorite pictures that I have taken in Ireland.  Yep, I took all of these pics :)  I might edit this post but I kind of like it how it is.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

The story of you and the bird made me laugh so hard
Also, "I like cemeteries because you can be around people and it isn't awkward"
Gah I miss you. I love all the pictures and I am glad you had so much fun in Ireland! :)

Andrea said...

Thank you so much! If you ever want to see something specific just ask. I miss you to. I actually have to go out of my house to see people now so weird.