Part 3: Ireland

Last stop was 9 days in Ireland, where I rendez-voused with my friend Hannah. After a day in Dublin, we went up to Bundoran, a sweet little surf town up North. We ended up meeting an Irish girl on the bus who pretty much adopted us for the weekend. Her mom fed us, and drove us around, and Ciara took us out on the "town" on Friday and Saturday night. Saturday morning, I went out with the guys at the surf lodge for a session in full-body wetsuit. It was way more difficult to move than I had imagined--the wetsuit was super restrictive. And the first time my head went under (I wasn't wearing the hood part since it was sunny), I though I was going to pass out. Nonetheless, it was awesome! You had to wait around for the sets, but I got back into it pretty quick.





Sunset in Bundoran
Next stop: Overnight in Galway
Next, we took the bus to a tiny village called Letterfrack, just next to the Connemara National Park. Hannah and I took a hike in the Park, up Diamond Hill.




Second day in Letterfrack, we walked out to the Kylemore Abbey.
We returned to Galway and took a tour of the Burren and the Cliffs of Moher. It was full springtime, with lambs and baby cows all over!

Cliffs of Moher

Part 2: Stockholm

After Copenhagen, I took the train up to Stockholm for a brief tour of the town and to visit Uncle Mike's new digs. The weather was perfect! And since it was April, the sun was staying out til nice and late. The first night I met a girl I knew from Stockholm at Gamla Stan, the old town, for a drink. The next day I got to see it during the daytime.

Hmmmm, moose meatballs and reindeer stew.

Vasa Museum-cool.


They used the bones found on board to re-create some of the Vasa's original unfortunate passengers. It was eerie how realistic they looked.