This was the day we went to Castletownshend, which was a place I have wanted to visit my whole life. It is the town where the Somervilles, my ancestors you might call them, came from, and the Somerville estate is still there, the place where Edith Somerville lived and wrote (she was a writer back in the day). The craziest thing happened in the leadup to this visit though. You remember Tony yeh, the servas guy we stayed with? well, not mentioning anything about t...

Ok, its been a long time coming, but here is a direct copy of a blog I wrote in a notepad on our second day in Glengariff, County Cork, Ireland, on the 21st: Sitting in 'Organico Cafe' in Bantry, which is the next town from Glengariff, where we stayed last night with a really cool Servas host named Tony. He lives on this way cool nature reserve out of town, called Skye Hill, only reachable by foot or four wheel drive, completely in the wilderness and with some c...

Dublin Dublin Dublin. We have spent three wonderful nights here, staying with our first ever Servas host, Josephine, who has been so lovely and generous towards us. We have been especially enjoying getting proper meals with lots of veggies, as we were often living off two minute noodles and the like... Her place is in Crumlin, a residential area only a short bus from the city centre. each day we have gone into the city and walked around, done some shopping, adm...