My mom says I'm habitual...
Hm. That last entry really wasn't at all what I wanted to say. I'll try and work on that for the sake of future updates.
Yesterday, we went to the Aran Islands and biked around the island.
I had a recurring thought yesterday: “I can’t believe that I am actually here…I can’t believe that this is actually real.”
When I was a little girl, I used to play in my backyard and imagine a place exactly like the Aran Islands. My friends and I would go exploring and pretend that we were farmers one day and royalty the next. I was just simply awe struck that a place like that actually exists every day outside of my eight-year-old imagination. And, as if my inner child weren’t already squealing with glee in response to the cows, sheep and even chickens around ever corner, I got to do it all on a bicycle.
After riding a few miles in a light, warm rain, we stopped at the highest point on all of the Aran Islands. It was quite a hike to the top, but one glance to my surroundings made it worth the hike one thousand times over. Ireland really does look like what they show in the movies. The horizon is green with grass, speckled with limestone walls, and then blue forever as Galway Bay stretches into the Atlantic Ocean. It’s a strange sensation to feel like you can see forever.
Climbing back down the path and onto our bikes, we continued our journey to the main attraction of the Aran Islands: Dun Aonghasa and they were positively incredible. I don’t really understand the concept of cliffs, though. I mean, I understand that they are a phenomena of water and rock, but it seems to me as if when you get to the end of a cliff, the world just…ends. Like it’s missing a puzzle piece or something. But not understanding (or not wanting to) the exact science behind cliffs makes them all the more majestic! I felt as though I could sit on those cliffs and look out over that water forever.
However, we had an hour and a half before the last ferry left the pier, so if we didn’t move quickly, spending forever on the island was going to become a very real possibility. So, we moved quickly to our next stop in an attempt to have a look at the seals on Galway Bay. Alas, there were no seals, just a pretty little beach and a man in what looked like a dollhouse selling sodas and candy, an element of commercialism that seemed very out of place on this traditional, agricultural island.
So, after our failed attempt to see seals, we charged forward under the powerful leadership of Alex Ledford and made it back to the pier for some well deserved fish & chips and Guinness.
It was easily my favorite day yet. Our day trips keep topping each other. I keep saying to myself "Okay, THIS is my favorite day ever" & then the next day we do something even cooler.
I don’t know how much longer you can keep this up, Ireland.
Yesterday, we went to the Aran Islands and biked around the island.
I had a recurring thought yesterday: “I can’t believe that I am actually here…I can’t believe that this is actually real.”
When I was a little girl, I used to play in my backyard and imagine a place exactly like the Aran Islands. My friends and I would go exploring and pretend that we were farmers one day and royalty the next. I was just simply awe struck that a place like that actually exists every day outside of my eight-year-old imagination. And, as if my inner child weren’t already squealing with glee in response to the cows, sheep and even chickens around ever corner, I got to do it all on a bicycle.
After riding a few miles in a light, warm rain, we stopped at the highest point on all of the Aran Islands. It was quite a hike to the top, but one glance to my surroundings made it worth the hike one thousand times over. Ireland really does look like what they show in the movies. The horizon is green with grass, speckled with limestone walls, and then blue forever as Galway Bay stretches into the Atlantic Ocean. It’s a strange sensation to feel like you can see forever.
Climbing back down the path and onto our bikes, we continued our journey to the main attraction of the Aran Islands: Dun Aonghasa and they were positively incredible. I don’t really understand the concept of cliffs, though. I mean, I understand that they are a phenomena of water and rock, but it seems to me as if when you get to the end of a cliff, the world just…ends. Like it’s missing a puzzle piece or something. But not understanding (or not wanting to) the exact science behind cliffs makes them all the more majestic! I felt as though I could sit on those cliffs and look out over that water forever.
However, we had an hour and a half before the last ferry left the pier, so if we didn’t move quickly, spending forever on the island was going to become a very real possibility. So, we moved quickly to our next stop in an attempt to have a look at the seals on Galway Bay. Alas, there were no seals, just a pretty little beach and a man in what looked like a dollhouse selling sodas and candy, an element of commercialism that seemed very out of place on this traditional, agricultural island.
So, after our failed attempt to see seals, we charged forward under the powerful leadership of Alex Ledford and made it back to the pier for some well deserved fish & chips and Guinness.
It was easily my favorite day yet. Our day trips keep topping each other. I keep saying to myself "Okay, THIS is my favorite day ever" & then the next day we do something even cooler.
I don’t know how much longer you can keep this up, Ireland.