"Who knows what the Australian anthem is?" our tour guide Gaberielle asks, looking at me in the rearview mirror of the bus. I sense that this is a trick question, but answer anyway "...errr Advance Australia Fair?" "Wrong!" "ahh..Waltzing Matilda?" "Shep love don't ya know your own anthem? You must, come on... You know we belong togeeeether, you and me forever and ever, we're walking on air, just to know" "Just to know!" "You are theeeeeeeeere" The American...

After 3 days in Dublin it was time to hit up the countryside, so we jumped into a little rented Yaris and made our way to the city of Cork. With the help of GPS we made it out of Dublin and onto the motorway. As we drove past exits for towns with names like Nurney, Ringaskiddy and Horse and Jockey (what the?), we started to see the beautiful and majestic scenery typical of Ireland - rolling hills of wild green grass and scraggly grey rock, lush pastures bordered...

Craic (noun) Pronounciation - crack: slang word derived from Gaelic, commonly used in Ireland to describe a fun time/person or good conversation and social interaction, usually involving laughter, music, drinking, dancing and singing. Note: does not necessarily involve crack cocaine. As in: Ireland was great craic Let's have some craic Where's the craic at? Liss is great craic after a few pints! So there was a lot of craic going on in our little Irish de...