We made it safe and sound to Macroom, Ireland! Our flight went off without a hitch and we even got to see the Statue of Liberty as we flew into New Jersey. We landed in Shannon, Ireland at 6 in the morning and found our way to the bus station. The roads were amazingly narrow and I was sure that our bus was going to clip the passing cars several times. The houses were beautiful in their Irish style and we saw several abandoned castles on our way. After an hour we made it to Cork. We walked through the popular shopping centre with our huge backpacks and walked into a local pub for a short break.
That backpack weighed over 70lbs.!
Traveling on we made our way to the university where we were to be picked up. Our host picked us up and we drove off on the left side of the road! Quite strange. After driving through even narrower country roads we arrived at their home. It was a quaint country house on a hectar of land ( a little over an acre). Mike and Fiona are lovely hosts and they have three happy kids.
They don't have any sheep this time of the year but they have three pigs that love the back of our legs (Regi received a perfect muddy imprint of a pig snout on the back of her leg), chickens that like to stay warm in the glass house (greenhouse), and ducks that like being in the rain. Today we fixed the electrical fence for the pigs (they like to get out and travel down the road) and picked the last of the brussel sprouts of the year. We have a little jet lag but it's not too bad.
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enjoy the green grass, the famine walls and the sheep! so excited for you. hope you get to go to galway and see the cliff of moher! have yourselves and irish breakfast! love you and miss you!!!
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