Galway

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.