We woke up in Anascaul today, and went to get on the bus. But it was locked... So we had a bit of spare time, so I took advantage of the free wifi, and Skyped Lachie and the family. After the connection cut me off, I went back outside where I discovered our driver had called in sick, so we had a new guy, Charlie, who was filling in. Our first stop was a town called Dingle. It's a little fishing town, and is said to be one of the most colourful towns in Ireland. W...

We got up early today (some of us feeling more sorry for ourselves than others), got some breakfast, and waited in the reception for the paddywagon bus, and our 9-day All Ireland tour. Our guides name was Darren, and we got on the bus and drove to the Guinness Storehouse, which is in Dublin. The place was massive! It's kind of designed around a large open circle section in the middle of the buildings, so all the 7 levels look like they're going around a massive p...

We got up today and went to take our clothes to the laundromat. (Ended up with 10kg of washing!!) We left that with them and headed back to the hostel, where we waited in the common area for a guide to come pick us up for a free walking tour of Dublin. The guide who picked us up was Juan, who was from Northern Spain. He took us along the river and up to the meeting place, where there were HEAPS of people! There was probably about 100 people there! Luckily, we wer...