End of the bloody road

Sorry to all our adoring readers, we got no wifi last night, so I didn't have the chance to update you all. Not to fear, I'm writing it day of still, so I can write if we hit a cafe with free wifi tomorrow.

If I told you that Sligo had nothing to do let me tell you now, I had no idea what I was talking about. Sligo at least had a bar or two. Here at Malinbeg there is literally nothing to do but look at sheep pass by my window...

But before I get back to that, let me touch on what we did today. Dad and I had to ask directions just to leave Sligo. It's really a confusing town... Once we made it to the highway dad and I blasted some tunes... Bonding I think. We made a quick stop for tea and coffee in a little village called Kellybegs. The whole town was as my dad would say “festoon” with green and yellow. Apparently Donegal would be playing Cork in a football match. However, when they said football they of course meant a mixture of Gaelic and Australian Rugby... Sounds safe, I know.

At our second stop we actually managed to make it to a tourist sight, something called Slieve League. The are the tallest cliffs in all of Europe, and they fall straight off into the ocean. You can do a long beautifully stunning hike up and across the whole ridge if you are more prepared than my dad and me. We just hiked long enough to be able to see the Ocean on the horizon, that we couldn't see anything else at see. The view is really beautiful all along the cliffs, dad and I sat and looked down at the water with some German students named Marvin and Lillith. Slieve League is definitely a sight worth seeing if you get the chance. They are almost the western most point of Europe... Almost...

If that honour goes to any inhabited place it's Malinbeg, where we are now. It's not quite the end of the world, but you can see it from here. There are sheep roaming free usually blocking the road, which is pretty cute actually. In addition, whole village smells like peat, and you can see it in the flowing brown streams all over the village. Oh, and the taps are a nice healthy yellowy-brown colour. Think beer colour. Leave it to Ireland right?

There is actually a very nice little beach here if you don't mind going up and down something like 200 stairs to get there. Of course it has little streams of pete colour water going into the ocean, so if you don't mind that, it's a very scenic beach.

For all of you who are curious whats on the farthest island off the coast of Ireland, so on the edge of the European world... It's a lighthouse. I don't know how to get there, but if I figure it out tomorrow I'll let you know.

That about sums up our day... Not super busy, but we're on vacation so that's fine.

I'll post this tomorrow hopefully. So you can all finally get off the edge of your seat from my last post. Just watched the sun set on the water for me. I guess that means it more or less just rose for you.

So good morning Vancouver, talk to you tomorrow.

-Matt

(we just got 20 minutes of wifi at a local starbucks)