Arrived in to blarney at about 8 or 9 at night to a warm Irish reception from the loveliest lady at the blarney vale our irish b&b. We were told to walk down to road into the small township which had a cute selection of places to eat. We found two pubs and were just comparing menus when we were spoken to by some wiser slightly inebriated locals who proceeded to inform us which pub had the younger people, which one we should eat at, and that either way we had...

Left Galway and headed in the general direction of Blarney stopping of at the Cliffs of Moher on the way as this was all we had time for after our amazing sleep. This was a beautiful place. So glad we ignored the signs and climbed over the railing to walk along the path to see more. Beautiful countryside amazing cliffs and the added danger to not slip on the mud and fall over the cliffs and into the water/our almost certain death was good. My words can't eve...

Stayed at forster court hotel which was absolutely amazing! The all day breakfast option and late checkout was very nice and much needed. Managed to have an early night (11pm) after having a delicious meal at the pub across the road. I had salmon and Emily struggled her way through some vege soup and homemade black bread. Again enjoyed the live Irish music and saw our first irish dancers. Was pretty great really.

Hertz car rental man said to us 'once you've seen one monastery you've seen them all' Seeing as new Zealand doesn't exactly have all that many monasteries we decided not to take his advice. Very glad we did It's not every day us kiwis get the chance to see stone buildings built around 500/817AD? Although it is covered in grave sites it's a very peaceful place quite earie in ways. Took a lot of photos, watched a movie and even happened to see a pilgrimage thr...

The flight to Dublin from Heathrow took 1.30 hours but really half of it was spent on the Tarmac at Heathrow and only 55mins was actually spent in the air Middle aged man sitting next to Emily fiddling with his.....phone and sighing a lot, thought he was annoyed at us but then realized how on earth could anyone be annoyed at us and put it down to him being a nervous flyer. Our introduction to Ireland was a hilarious Customs lady waving us in like we were annoyi...