Beautiful Ireland
On Grace's second day in Ireland I didn't have a final and Grace wanted to see more of the beautiful country so I booked us a tour a the Wicklow Mountains and Glendalough (I had actually already gone to Glendalough once before but didn't ge a tour of the Wicklow Mountains). The one downside is that we had to wake up earlier in the morning than jetlagged Grace would have preferred. We started our day by making our way down to the city centre to catch the tour outside the toursit office. Our vehicle for the day was a mini-bus so that it could navigate the turns and small roads of the Wicklow Mountains.
Mannis was our guide for the day and he was a cute old Irishman who made us tea at our first stop. It was a good tour and here were the highlights:
- Blessington Lake
- Guinness Lake
- Waterfall
- Sally Gap (filming site for PS I Love You) and Wicklow Gap
- Grace seeing sheep
Grace at Guinness Lake which looks like a giant pint of Guinness
And after lunch at a classic Irish carvery we went to Glendalough monastic settlement.
Round Tower at Glendalough
Grace at the Upper Lake of Glendalough (meaning "valley of the two lakes")
Walking down a path at Glendalough
We also met the cutest French girl on the tour. She must have been about four and didn't speak English and we did not speak any French but that didn't stop her from talking to us. She just kept chatting away, despite our attempts to tell her we didn't understand. It was tremendously cute.
After arriving back in Dublin we invited the Wolf Pack over for a pasta dinner. I had a final the next day so after Grace went to bed to try and recover from jetlag I studied late into the night.
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