The Rest of the Road Trip

Here's my trusty steed. I call her Blue Belle and she is my friend! Driving wasn't acually that hard...just had to constantly remind myself to stay on the left side of the road. I pretty much just followed other cars. I stalled a handful of times, but it was a success overall!

On a little island south of Cork. I drove around the whole thing trying to find the highway...woops! It was pretty though so its ok!

A castle I encountered from a sign posted by the road. It was after visiting hours so I stole this pic from the road.

A town near Dublin called Enniscorthy.

This is a sweet lookout over a golf course in Wicklow, which is directly south of Dublin.

My room in the B&B!





This was actually taken from the roof of the Blarney castle.
These are some pics of the countryside on my drive down the coast...

After seeing Blarney Castle, kissing the stone, and walking the grounds I decided I was going to need to spend the night somewhere because I wouldn't have time to do all my sightseeing I wanted to do on the way back to Dublin...not enough daylight! So I drove toward the coast until the sun went down and stayed in a fabulous little bed and breakfast. It was a beautiful house from the 1800s with authentic furniture and everything!

Then this morning I woke up bright and early to get a jump start on my day of driving and stopping as I saw fit. Too bad for me it was really foggy so it made my seaside drive not quite what I was hoping for. It was still breathtaking with the green covered cliffs and hills though! I drove through quite a few little villages, which were amazing because they each had pretty ornate churches or castles and were picturesque themselves...little shops and narrow streets perfect for shopping or just walking around. I also visited the Irish Heritage Park where they had displays from all the different eras of Irish history. Interesting stuff for nerds like me! All in all I loved my weekend. Again, more pics on facebook and Myspace...its pretty annoying to load them here! I'm thinking next weekend I may stick around Dublin and do some museums or something. Who knows? Oh yeah, have to work all week too. I have to keep reminding myself that's what I'm here to do first and be a tourist second :)