Our first big, out of the country trip was to southern Ireland. It's beautiful.
We left Friday after Emily's class and unfortunately spent so much time traveling, we didn't get to Cobh to meet Emily's friend Bri until midnight. We did however, use about 6 different forms of public transportation in one day (tram, coach, plane, city bus, train, and taxi). I feel like that has to be some kind of record. Anyway, Emily met Bri in Ireland because she was spending the week following around a band named Ceann. They're Americans but they do a lot of Irishy kind of music. Emily and I met Bri and them in Cobh and then the next day accompanied them to Killarney and went on the Ring of Kerry, which is a tour through the Irish countryside near Killarney and it is in one word: gorgeous. Sadly, we didn't get to see much of the city though.
(me with Emily & Bri)
The next day, Bri and the group went to Shannon to fly back to the states while Em and I went to Cork. There, we stayed with Sharon, Bri's roommate from the time she studied abroad in Cork. We visited Blarney castle, Emily kissed the Blarney Stone, and the Cork County Jail. That night was Halloween and she and Sharon and some of Sharon's friends went out to the pubs, but not for too late though because they had class the next day. Emily slept about 2 hours then had to get up to catch a 5am train back to Dublin so she could fly back to France.
All in all, we felt like we did not experience enough of Ireland, but liked what we did. I hope I get to back sometime.
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