Well hello everyone! Sorry it has taken us soooo long to post another blog for you. The last three nights we spent in a small town called Lisdoonvarna, which is located on the West coast of Ireland. There was only one computer for the entire hostel to us, needless to say it was busy and slow. Lisdoonvarna is a small town that is made up of hotels, B&B, and a couple hostels plus a few locals. This town caters to the tourist coming through to look at the Cliffs of Moher, which was exactly what we were doing. The Cliffs of Moher are a stretch of cliffs that are about 700ft high and cover a 8km coastline.

We have covered some ground since we last posted. After liverpool we headed up to Edinburgh, which is in Scotland. When we were there was an arts fair takin place. There was tons of street performers, so that is where we spent most of our time. We were not a fan of our hostel not too clean. It was an old church that was converted into a hostel, threw up some walls and put a bathroom in and called it good.

In the moring we headed North to see Dundee. In Dundee we went to book our train ride for the next morning, so we could catch our flight to Dublin from Glasgow we realized we would not be able to get to Glasgow early enough to catch our flight. Atleast we were able to get 75% of our hostel for the night cuz they could fill our beds. We left our bags at the hostel for a few hours so we could see Dundee. We had not yet eaten for the day so we went to a local pancake house. This is where we ate black pudding (better known as blood pudding). I asked the waitress after finishing what it was, pretty much pig insides and pig blood. Really not to bad but I will probably not order it again.

Thursday we caught our flight to Ireland. Once we got to Dublin we wanted to head West to Lisdoonvarna. Our last leg of the day got us into a small town called Ennis where we would have to catch a bus to Lisdoonvarna, when we got there the last bus had left 10 minutes previously (it was only 6:30, we didn't realize that we would be in as small of a town as Carnation where the bus only leaves twice a day.) Another bus driver heading else where asked if he could help, I told him our situation, he called the bus driver that was on his way to Lisdoonvarna and had him pull over, he would take us to him. It was amazing nothing like that would happen in the states, he made our night. We finally arrived to our hostel!

Friday we went to the Cliffs, yesterdays long day traveling was all worth it. Mom don't read this part... We went for a 6 mile walk along the cliffs edge. There were danger signs up to not go past but that did not distract all the tourist, the paths were well used. The view at the end was magnificant, even though the path was a little intiminating, in places no more than 3 feet from 700' shear drops to the crashing waves below! (Linda those details are for you cuz we know you read it anyway). Later we went to a pub for a drink, which had live Irish music, they were quite good. (Not sure how good the video we have will sound but give it a shot. ) They recommended a lemonade and whiskey, it was actually really good.

The next day we went to the Doolin Cave, which has the largest still growing Stalactite viewable to the public. It was about 24ft and about 6 tons. We then went back to the hostel to relax, first day that we could get real laundry done, read our books, and watch Cool Runnings on the hostel tv. It is just as good in Ireland, it was great to watch people come in and of the room from all over the world and they all knew the movie Cool Runnings.

Now we are back to Dublin, might go check out the Guinness distillary.

Love you guys and would love to hear from everyone... don't be shy about posting its not too scary! Hope everything is going well at home!

P.S. Andy sorry for so much writting.