No really something IS in the water in Galway, my present location, but no one knows what it is! I went to a chemist to buy some hand sanitizer and they said it is something to do with "animals" but that no one is sure what happened.
In other news, yesterday while still in Cork I took a whole bunch of showers and slept a lot...more interestingly I went to Blarney and yes, I kissed the Blarney stone. It was quite entertaining watching people freak out over kissing the rock. In order to kiss the rather unimpressive stone you lay down on you back, and grab two handles attached to the castle, with the help of an extra grumpy old man (who can blame him) you lean over the edge and go as far down as you can to kiss the stone. I got some tourist to take a picture of me kissing the stone as proof too! After the big kiss I walked around the grounds of the castle, after all I payed £8, and hung out in the town for a bit before catching a bus back into Cork City.
My really exciting news in Cork City is not exciting at all unless you're me or have experience with a) smelly animal farming or b) not having access to books in a really long time. After I got into Cork I found an awesome bookstore called Vibes & Scribes and bought a couple of books because in Ireland, unlike Norway, books in English are not that hard to come by! Who would have known, I have a break from school and I missed reading hmm. After my amazing bookstore experience I grabbed dinner at this really funny cheap pizza place called Four Star Pizza (ya i know but like i said it was cheap!) and then I literally ran into a laundry! I finally found a place to 'de-goat' and I was so excited I speed walked back to where I was staying, grabbed all my laundry that hadn't been done in over 2 weeks which basically consisted of everything I wasn't wearing and jogged back to the laundry called Washtub. Thankfully I got all my stuff back before I left for Galway...I know I probably sound so lame but it is so great to not have gross clothes! It was a serious accomplishment and a lot of stress gone.
Anyway, so now I am in Galway after a 5 hour bus ride and I just bought a ferry ticket for the Aran Islands. I leave tomorrow for Inis Mor to hang out with friends for a few days then back to Galway on Sunday night and leaving for Dublin on Monday!
Wow the time has just flown by...I can't believe my solo leg of my trip is almost over! It is kind of a mixed blessing, friends are always great to hang out with but I am so used to not knowing where I am going to sleep at night until I get to where I am going, and walking around meeting people...it will be really different from here on out.
One more note, I have to say...it is really nice to be in a semi-big city again and I know this will sound gross but I love the smell of the streets. When you walk around New York City and even Seattle you can smell it, it is this horrid sweet smell that you wouldn't want to smell anywhere else. But I smelled it when I first started walking around Galway and it is well....nice? maybe not the right word, but I guess it reminds me of home!Maybe the smell here has to do with that contaminated water?
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Let's review the word smells: in dairy country there is a known smell; in eugene there is a familiar smell next to the U of O- the bakery; but in the big cities is called pollution: sulfur from mills, steel mills/welding exhaust, sewage treatment plants and of course car and jet fuel and exhaust from crematorium....
Good job with your blogs reports. It has been fun to follow the adventures of Miss Adams on the road.
How about some history of the Blarney Stone....Legend claims that kissing the rock endows the kisser with the gift of gab. Blarney means clever or flattering talk. This from the year 1446.
Probably more about history than you ever wanted to know.
After two weeks of travel and goats you probably did smell baaaaaaaa-d...........
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