Today the first things we did was to go to the Giant causeway since it was close by. They said that it is a 20min walk down to the causeway but what they forget to mention is that it is downhill, which is nice going to the Causeway but the climb uphill on the way back may kill you. One of the best features of the Giant Causeway however is the nice little shuttle bus one can take uphill. J The Giant's Causeway is basically a large group of hexagonal stones that go...

We had a late start today breakfast was at 8:30 and of course it was a full Irish breakfast J. Poodles is falling in love with the bacon here. Allison wanted to go to Saint George's Market in Belfast and since it closed at noon I wasn't able to go to Cooley's Distiillery nearby. The drive up to belvast was rather uneventful. We took the main motor road which is similar to our freeways. Belfast is an interesting city to say the least because when you think of this...

Today we "slept in" and didn't go have breakfast until 900 since the Trim Castle was right across the street from our hotel. The castle wasn't going to be open until 1000 and we wanted to check out before going over so that way we wouldn't feel too rushed. One of the advice Rick Steves and people who have gone to Ireland in the past have suggested was to buy the Ireland Heritage Card. This card gets you into various tourist attractions all around the ...

So today we were scheduled to leave Dublin and head out to the Irish countryside. We opted for a late check out so that we can enjoy some time touring around Dublin. After a hearty international breakfast at the hotel which consisted of eggs, sausage, potatoes, strawberry pastry and what I thought was sausage. It wasn't sausage turned out it was pudding but in Ireland pudding isn't your typical gooey creamy stuff…nope! It is this sausage like food made of vario...

We left Dublin at 3pm after a small hassle at the hotel checking out. I drove and Bob navigated for me. Trying to get out of Dublin was a zoo! Their freeways don't have off ramps like ours does it just goes from a regular street into a highway of sorts. Fortunately no one got hit, no cars were bumped and we made it out. One thing I did notice was that the roadways don't really have too many off ramps but they use roundabouts instead. Also as typical of cities the...