We woke up bright and early today to prepare for our day tour to Wicklow Mountains. This was a great opportunity to learn more information about Ireland as well. The tour started at 9:20 AM and lasted until 5:30 PM, which worked perfectly with the other things we still wanted to do. Our tour guide, Devan, was awesome! I couldn’t have asked for a better guide. He gave us tons of insight about the history of Ireland, where to eat, where to shop, and anything else you could think of. It took us about an hour to get out of the city and into the country, but once we did, it was amazing.
The view was spectacular everywhere we went. We traveled in valleys, passed by Guinness lake, and up into the mountains. I cannot express how breathtaking the view was, not even the pictures can truly capture all of it. Here's Guinness Lake:
It did start to rain during the tour, but it wasn’t too bad. Here's the location of one of the scenes shot for P.S. I love you:
We stopped for lunch in a small town called Glendalough. We decided to eat a café, which was really neat. It’s so neat to hear the Irish accent, and I’ve noticed how they say “ya” a lot at the end of questions/statements. For example, they lady who asked for my order at the café said “what would you like, ya?” So cool, I wish I could record it. The food was really good, I had a quiche and hot chocolate. All of the food here in Ireland is extremely good. It’s nothing like American food, everything is fresh and homemade, it’s so good. There are hardly any “fast food” places as well. After lunch, we toured the “7 churches”
and walked onto to see the Glendalough lakes. Along the way, the tour guide asked us "Does anyone know how long it takes to walk 1.5 kilometers?" Me, being the vocal one of the bus asked "Sir, what is that in miles? We're from America." The girls all seemed to find it hilarious and so now any time that we do something "American" they always make that quote. Back to the trip--again, the views were simply breathtaking. Here's us girls at Glendalough Lakes:
After the lakes, we headed to a small town, where the oldest weaving company in Ireland is located, the company is called Avoco. They demonstrated how they make their international famous scarves, blankets, and much more. All the material in this picture comes together in the following picture:
After that we headed back to Dublin, and stopped at the hostel to get ready for dinner and going to the pubs. We decided to eat at one of the pub’s our tour guide suggested and we invested in some homemade Irish food, I had a lamb stew with carrots and cheesy potatoes. The drinking is interesting here as well…it’s definitely expensive, we found that out quick! It’s very common to have a drink with dinner, and people do not abuse it. After dinner we went to the pub right next to our hostel and called it a night shortly after.
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