Roundstone-Sligo

August 23: Travel Roundstone to Sligo. Today has been wet. We awoke to pouring rain and stayed with us most of the day, although it lessened to showers by evening. Felt like Vancouver! The drive was fun once we got onto a main road (much more room). We have not been reading our Ireland story telling book as there is always something else to do. Matt and are however having a great time listening to some of the rock and roll on my ipod and singing along. Sort of a musical legacy of my music taste. Stopped for coffee at Westport and when we got Sligo it took a while to find our B&B (An Cruisein Lan )(which was closed until 6) so we walked around in the rain killing time. We managed to take our clothes to a laundry. We also tried to get tix for a local production of Westside Story but it was sold out. Instead we went out for Chinese food (looking for vegies) and then went to see a cute little film called TED.

Sligo does not strike me as a fun and happening place but my opinion may be coloured by the rain, trouble parking and the lack of a funky tourist quarter. I know this sounds like we had a terrible day but all in all Matt and I had fun exploring and things turned out well in the end. It was good to have a little down time.

Tomorrow we plan to go to the west coast of Donegal and walk along some cliffs over looking the sea and they are predicting rain for the forseeable future, grrrr................ We will be in Derry the day after tomorrow and will make our way to Raphoe and the old family homestead from there.  

-Tom