After being in the city all day we decided that we wanted to go on a big hike and see the green hilly Ireland that people talk about. During our tour our guide said a great place to go was glendalough, which is in the national park of the wikilow mountains. We looked it up on the computer and found that we could take a train and then a bus, however because we waited so late at night to plan it we couldn't confirm that the bus would be running, but we took the r...

We arrived in Dublin last night and had some difficulties with our hostel. We had a confirmation number but for some reason they didn't have us booked. We were supposed to be staying in an apartment in Dublin, but due to the mix up we we ended up staying in a 6 person girls dorm. Once we had a room ( although not what we had expected) we headed to get foo as we had not eaten all day. Since we are trying to do our trip on a low budget we have become very cheap wi...

The literary pub tour was exceptional. It was rum by middle aged men that walked us through much of the literary history of Scotland in a very funny way. We went to 4 different pubs and we even tried straight whiskey, as that is what Edinburgh and Scotland are known for. Not gonna lie I probably won't be drinking that again, much different experience from my regular whiskey sour! After that we went back to our hostel and played cards for a bit. A bunch of America...

Currently I'm sitting in the elephant house cafe. Any of you huge Harry potter fans will know that this is where JK Rawling wrote the majority of her first few Harry potter books. From the back window you can see the castle that was apparently her inspiration for Hogwarts, with 4 big towers. We did a free walking tour today and it was awesome. We saw all the main sights and got a lot of information about the history of Scotland. We also walked the royal mile and...

Today we had a travel day. We walked through Hyde park and then made our way to the place where we had to pick up our bus o the airport. That was located in an area that was not heavily populated with tourists and it was really cool to see just local London life, however we got lost with all the crossing and touring of the streets and were walking for at least an hour with our 10kg backpacks. We then went to the wrong terminal when we got to the airport ( this is...