Day 6

Well i've finally got around to sorting out and reducing down my pictures from ireland so now i can get posting. i'll start with this day, day 6 of the trip so that when you read the blog the posts will be in order from day 1 to day 6! ...except this message...

Ok so day 6, the last day, always starts with the aftermath of the last night, at this point i'd like to say that i wasn't that bad on the last night i was in quite good control. The worst thing i did probably for the whole trip was on the last morning after lack of sleep, this is how it goes... earlier the day before one of the guys bought some bacon and eggs so we could have a feast on the last morning. In the morning he cooked up all the bacon and said help yourself as long as you cook your own eggs, so we did. I got a plate ready took some bacon oiled up the pan to cook my eggs. At this point there was a funny smell in the air but i figured it was just one of the other guys filling up the sink ready to wash up. Well the eggs cooked and i sat down ready to eat, when i took my first bite of the egg i just sat there withmy face over my plate thinking it didnt taste quite right, but then i remembered that we did have a 'few' drinks the night before and thought it must just be my taste buds as everyone else was enjoying their eggy breakfast...so i swallowed the first piece of egg still thinking it must just be me. I had another piece and decided that there was something not right! well something was not right indeed, instead of the oil i thought i was using it was washing up liquid (it was yellow washing up liquid) which explained the weird smell earlier when we were cooking! So for the rest of the last day everytime i burped i had the pleasant taste of washing up liquid in my mouth!! mmm mmm

The offending liquid

The journey on the last day was from Killarney back to Dublin with the main attraction on the way being Blarney castle where you get to kiss the blarney stone by dangling backwards off the top of the castle, not as dangerous as it sounds. Blarney castle was one of the more majestic castles' that we visited and in quite good condition, the grounds were also very nice and so green. Here's a happy snap for you.

From the Blarney stone looking down

A little further down the road we visited a Norman castle and had a bit of a guided tour, nothing too exciting, so onwards we drove past the rock where the King used to get crowned, through fields where some of the Braveheart battle scenes were filmed, we passed a whole bunch of peat farms (bog places really) and then into Dublin.

From Dublin the group split up as everybody went off in different directions, those of us who had to go back to London had a quiet dinner and prepared to board the bus which would take us back to the big smoke after we caught the ferry across the ocean again. I was lucky enough to sleep practically the whole trip back which was great! When i got back to the pub i got down to a whole lot more sleeping ahh thats the life!!