Monday, August 07, 2006

Day 3--A whole lot of driving

Day Three--A lot of driving On Monday we left Dublin . It was our first experience on the major roads in Ireland ; those are a lot easier to drive on because all the traffic is traveling the same directions. By then Devin had mastered staying in his own lanes, so it was relatively uneventful. Our final destination was Cashel, but we decided to take the scenic route through the Wicklow Mountains . The Wicklows are pretty, but coming from CO we found them rather uninspiring :) We spent about 8 hours in the car that day, which is a long day when the roads are narrow and scary. When you cross the Wicklows you descend on a valley in which the monastery of Glendalough lies. It is a beautiful monastery, originally built by St. Kevin in the 6th century. It was destroyed at some point and rebuilt, the oldest remains are from the 9th century--the most important of which is a huge tower. It is in a gorgeous location with a river and two lakes. We then left and drove to Arklow and had lunch. Nothing to impressive, just some sandwiches in a lovely little beach town. We then drove down to Waterford . Waterford is not as touristy as I would have thought. In fact, the actual crystal factory isn't even in Waterford . It was a cute town, but nothing too impressive, and we decided that it wasn't worth our time to drive back there later. However, in Waterford we did encounter the first evidence of blatent disregard for copyright. This is not a KFC--I think it is great! We then headed north to Cashel where we stayed at the wonderful Carron B&B. This place was truly amazing at 70 euro a night for both of us with a farm breakfast! Also, the sun never sets in Ireland, well it does, but whatever. I turned the time function on on my camera so that I could illustrate the light/sleeping problem

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