Today has been such a relaxing day I
can hardly believe it. I might even get to bed before too long if I
keep the blog post short.
We left Wits End with a hardy Irish
breakfast which was served by our very kind hostess. For those of you
who don't know, an Irish breakfast essentially consists of meat and
not much else. I really had to go and work out for a bit before we
got back in the car because I felt so bloated. Don't get me wrong,
the food was delicious, just made me feel like I couldn't spend the
rest of the day in the car.
Today we mapped out our route to the
next location, a little B&B called An Crusien Lan (it has like 3
weird accents too). We realized when we marked out our root that we'd
be going through 3 different counties, Galway, Mayo, and now of
course Sligo.
Although it was a long drive with
plenty of unhelpful signs, it was a fairly straight shot to Sligo.
But for me personally it was hard not to feel homesick passing
through county Mayo for obvious reasons. I'll give you a hint if you
haven't caught on already, it's not because of the Gaelic I see
everywhere.
When we finally made it through all
three counties we made it to the town of Sligo. Just a wee little
town. But let me say again, the roads and maps here make no sense in
relation to the other. We probably drove around for a half an hour
before we found our accommodations, and then drove to 3 different
parking lots before we figured out where we could park easily.
Despite this setting us back by an hour, our host still didn't show
up until 3 hours later. Mind you, we said we'd show up before 6, but
who's keeping track of these things here? On the plus side, it gave
us a chance to find a laundromat and do what was becoming much needed
laundry for the two of us.
Sligo is a nice little town with a
Yeats museum as a free tourist attraction. There was a reason it's
free.
Nothing was particularly memorable
there. They had stuff like his William's pipe, and some letters
written by the two of them (2 Yeats by the way(father and son)). It
was a cute little two rooms, but nothing to come in to see. It takes
you 15 minutes if you really take your time.
Dad and I decided we didn't need to
spend another night drinking so we looked for anything really
interesting to do in Sligo. We actually found a local teen production
of Westside Story, but it was all sold out. I guess the whole town
had nothing to do as well. Eventually we just decided to head to the
local cinema, checked out TED. Turns out they have all the same
movies playing here as at home.
I won't give you a full review of TED,
that's not why you're reading this blog. I'll just say it was cute,
dad and I actually really enjoyed not having an Irish night, and just
feeling like we were back home. Maybe that was just me who felt like
that though.
After the movie, we headed home for an
early night. So we came back to the B&B and I sat down to write
this blog... That's basically it, I've brought you up to speed...
We'll be going farther north tomorrow.
I don't know how much longer we'll have wifi up there. But I'll keep
typing entries into documents and save them till I can post them.
Don't fear, I wont have forgotten about you back home.
Going to try to take advantage of this
early night and get some extra sleep.
Goodnight Vancouver... Or afternoon, I
guess... Regardless, I'm going to go to sleep now.
-Matt
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