the car taken care of. Made it back to the car rental (or car hire, if
you will) place and got the car switched out relatively easily. They
didn't seem real concerned about it, which I guess I'm not terribly
surprised about. It's nice to have a car with legit brakes. Cruise
would have been nice, but I can't ask too much now.
Then we made our way to Newgrange, which is a really old tomb. Like,
5000 years old. We went inside the building, which is still in it's
original state inside as when it was originally built, which is
amazing. Waterproof too, for 5000 years, crazy. I wasn't sure what to
expect, and it was pretty sweet.
After that we took off towards the east coast and a town named Howth.
We had lunch there at a small bar. There we came to the realization
that unless you ask for some help, you probably won't get any. In the
states, you're stepped through every step of the eating process.
You're constantly at a certain point in the transaction. But here, if
you want the bill, you need to flag someone down and let them know.
Otherwise you will, like we have for a week, sit there for an hour
with nothing to do.
Originally we planned to hit up some gardens on the south of town, but
due to the aforementioned lunch, definitely we weren't making it there
before dark. So instead we tried going to the Bram Stoker castle. We
rushed there hoping to make it before they closed, only to find there
was no castle. There was an exhibit, but we were confused about it's
location. We asked someone who told us it closed after halloween. The
'castle' was actually just Bram Stoker's house, which we actually
never found either.
After that failure we made it back to Howth, and walked around towards
a lighthouse, and took a ton of in the dark photos that I'm skeptical
how (mine anyway) will turn out. We'll see.
We continued our circle of the Howth area - there is a giant island
that we tried attacking, but we missed the bridge that we wanted, and
the next bridge took us to some kind of golf club. So that didn't
really work out either.
Back to the hotel we went and again ate at the local eatery here.
There was some moderate confusion about the bill, but my dinner was
tasty, so it worked out.
All in all, another moderately successful day. Also successful was the
weather - another sunny day, a commendable job from mother nature.
Tomorrow is our last day! We have accomplished a lot on our trip so
far, although there are a few things that will certainly get missed.
We'll be staying in Dublin for our last day, one more chance to
stretch our legs before the journey home. I'm feeling relatively good,
but the whole lower half of my body is sore most of the time (so what
do I mean when I say I feel relatively good, I'm not sure). This is
another trip that towards the end, I think about how cool it would
have been to have a pedometer for the week. Ah well. That would have
been a great reason to get a Nike+ unit though...hmm....
Oh, I'm not sure if I mentioned this before, but Ireland may be more
swine flu crazy than A-O is. There are sings everywhere about the
swine flu. Bananas!
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