Month: July 2022

As in the last post, all we did on the day we went to Galway was nothing other than resting.

The next day was a surprise surprise, walking tour! It was mainly the history of the different families who took control of Galway for a part of it’s history. One interesting story is that one of the families was called the Lynches. So, how this story goes, it might be wrong, but the father Lynch was a Magistrate, basically a judge, jury, and executioner. He had a son or one birth son and a adopted son, depending on your source. His birth son was about to be married and had a fiance. The adopted son was, ehem, fooling around with the fiance. The birth son found out and killed him. This was illegal, so the dad had to judge him. He judged him to be lynched. Part of the job was to have to carry out the sentence. So, yeah…

The next day was a boat/bus tour to some islands. It started with a bus ride to a ferry. The ferry was to an island with a castle on it. After that Island, the tour group went on a 2-hour ferry. The ferry was awful. It was raining and the waves were massive. After that boat, we finally made it the Cliffs of Moher. Unfortunately, this breaks my streak of having no pictures.

After the cliffs, it was back to the hostel and getting ready for Scotland.

The trip here was a sort of bad day. one, for about a month, no more planes, we will be using just boats and trains to get around for a bit. Also, you should have seen the massive crowd just waiting for the baggage claim to start. There was massive delays, but, coming from the crowds of people there, the workers were likely swamped by planes.

The next day, we went on yet another free walking tour. We got to see the basic run down of things to see in Dublin. We also got to see how awful those seagull #!%$^’s. While the group was crossing a bridge, a flock of seagulls started to fly by. They started pooping like crazy, and one managed to poop on Charlie’s jacket arm. At least it wasn’t the face. That would have been awful.

This was all before lunch, so it was fun walking around and seeing the abandoned hostel where Mom and Dad met for the first time. It was also fun going to the place where they ate that day.

The next day we visited the Dublinia Museum and the cathedral. The Museum and the cathedral were connected, so Mom, Dad, and James saw the cathedral. The Museum is mostly about the history of the Dublin area during the viking through middle ages mostly. No pictures of that, sorry. In the afternoon we checked out a children friendly museum nearby. I took a few pictures of interesting things in it.

The third day was a train to Galway, in which we did nothing but traveling to Galway. That’s the next post.

Sorry about this being late. So, um, I don’t really have much pictures about the short time two days we spent in Oslo. Also, the train we wen’t on wasn’t all that steep, it was a few hundred meters over the course of an hour. It wasn’t a rollercoaster.

After the train we dropped off our bags. This was Charlie’s birthday, but no one cared. We really didn’t do anything other than go to one of my Dad’s old friends for a barbecue. And yes, there was cake.

We also finished watching the Obi-wan series, so yeah!

The next day was a hot one, so the plan was to go to island and go swimming. The ferry line was extremely long, so we didn’t think it was worth it. So, the decision was made to go to a nearby park that had a beach. Though seriously, how do these people walk around barefoot on all of those small pebbles on the beach. Like, HOW?! At the end of the day, at around 9:30, we checked out the sculpture park close to our airbnb. Seriously, what was up with some of those statues.

We left for the republic of Ireland next, so see you later.