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| Storms over Galway |
It has taken me a long time to sort out and arrange pictures from my Ireland trip. Because I was there on work, most of my pictures are from around the time of sunset.
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| Galway city center and docks |
This place in the pedestrian-only city-center area claimed to serve the best fish and chips in Ireland. I liked it, but my colleague who is English was not so impressed.
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| "Best fish and chips in Ireland" |
Fortunately, I did a have a weekend in between, had a rental car, and the weather sort-of-cooperated (it only rained half the time), so I was able to drive out to the Cliffs of Moher and to the Connemara mountains.
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| Cliffs of Moher |
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| Dunguaire Castle |
Driving was interesting to say the least. The stick shift and the mirrors are all on the "other" side, so my instincts were all wrong. Within town, driving on the left was not a problem, because there were cars on the other side keeping me constantly aware of this. Out in the country, it was not quite so trouble-free. I scraped the car on a few stone walls. Stone walls! Apparently, because the area is so rocky, the way to make the land halfway-useful was to physically move the stones to the periphery of the plots. This explains why the country is dotted with lovely stone walls. But so are the roads. On both sides of most roads were 3 foot high stone walls. The roads were about as wide as the shoulder on an American interstate, and the speed limits were 100 kmph (about 60 mph), so yes, driving was quite interesting.
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| An Irish highway. |
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| View of the Atlantic Ocean |
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| Connemara |
Totally worth it though.
Now that you have sorted out and arranged pictures from your Ireland trip, when will your family get to see all the pictures from your Ireland trip? Maybe you should upload it with captions....
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