So, I’ve been home for a few days now, but work has been crazy, so I’ll cover off the trip that was (hopefully accurately!)

We started off Friday 13 July, probably not the best of days to hire a car and drive in a foreign country if you are soupaticious, but it didn’t worry me in the slightest. The Dublin traffic did! Roughly 1.5 hours to get from my place in Dublin to ‘red cow’ round-about, which is a complete joke, but we were off on the highway heading towards Kilkenny.

I am just going to give a ‘brief’ overview of each day, rather then type hiddeious amounts of text….

Day 1 – Dublin to Kilkenny, not a whole lot going on here, just driving, hit up a pub for dinner – good times.
Day 2 – Waterford, we shot down to Waterford Crystal, primarily to see how it all happens, they make each piece completly by hand, crazy talk. Then we went to town buying crystal (well mainly me, some nice crystal wine glasses and boubon/whisky glasses, and a few other bits a pieces).
Day 3 – Kilkenny to Cork, Kilkenny Castle – fantastic place, restored from essentially ruins by the government, did a tour and then headed off for Cork (Southern Ireland). Went off into the Jameson distillery in Middletown to see how whisky is made, good times – bought a good few things, including a 12 year old ‘only available at the distillery’ personalised bottle off grog! Stayed at Cobh (pronounced Cove).
Day 4 – Cohb to Kinsale, Cobh is on an island of sorts, so we drove around the Island sight seeing. Short drive down to Kinsale, went to Charles Fort & James Fort – pretty damned awesome, stayed in at Kinsale for the evening.
Day 5 - Kinsale to Dingle, It dawned on me we were nearly halfway through our trip and hadn’t gotten very far! Drove pretty much all day, stopped off at various spots to sight see, travelling along the Ring of Kerry, beautiful scenery along the way.
Day 6 – Dingle to Doolin, again another fairly hectic day of driving & sight seeing, Bunratty Castle & Cliffs of Mhore
Day 7 - Dooling to Bushmill, met a Swedish couple at breakfast and they told us about the Slieve’s League, more cliff’s to check out, these are 600m above sea level though, was an awesome view! Then we hauled ass toward Northern Ireland to hit up the Giants Clauseway, again this was sensational! Crashed at the Bushmill’s inn – where I got conned outta nearly 200 pounds for a room, classy!
Day 8 - Bushmill to Dublin, we went into the Bushmills distillery in the morning, spent more $$$ on grog and glasses and what not, bought another ‘distillery only’ bottle customised with my name one it

Once home, we crashed for the night and I got up early to take the car back to the hire place and then we had a trip on an old ‘tall boat’ called Jeanie Johnston, started ok, however the weather turned to shit and we (me) got totally SOAKED!

Right that’s it for now, there is over 1,000 photo’s I’ve taken on the holiday, I was hoping to go through them this weekend and post a few, but I spent most of the weekend either drunk or hungover hehe so I’ll get around to posting some photo’s this week, hopefully…

Hitting up Paris this weekend, should be a blast, then the weekend after to Edinburgh to see Silverchair (can’t wait!).

Yep a month’s gone by since my last update, shocking isn’t it – although you shouldn’t be suprised…

Well I’ve been across to Newcastle, met up with mum and dad, along with Ridley & Lynette, then wandered around Newcastle for a day or two, went down to Whitley Bay to see where grandad and grandma grew up and saw the house(s) they lived in and where grandad was born, so that was pretty good.

Then we were off to Wimbledon, up at 2am (pick up from Hexam) for a ‘quick’ coach ride down to London, move forward 10 hours and we’ve made it to Wimbledon hehe we had Show Court 1 tickets (i.e. not centre court) but it was the last Sat of the tournament and they were behind schedule, so we managed to get to see the Nadal Semi, womens double semi and saw the Woodies take on Pat Cash and Richard Kriajech in a exhibition match, this was quite funny, alot of messing! Wimbledon was awesome, fantastic atmosphere and a good time had by all. Ohh yes we managed to get onto Centre Court to see the mixed doubles semi as well, they just opened up the court, so that has handy!
Sunday saw us off to Windsor Castle, a massive, massive place, with even longer line-ups! however because we had some package tour rolled into our Wimbledon tickets, we managed to queue jump, love it! Wandered around there for a few hours, the queen was in residence, but didn’t want a cuppa with us, nor a beer, biatch! I then had to catch 5, yes 5 trains to get to the other side of London to meet up with Matty & Louise before heading out to Wembley to catch Metallica, who were awesome – they played mostly old stuff and played for 2.5 hours, good times.

Mum & dad made their way to Ireland the Tues afterwards, we went to Riverdance on the Wed night for mum’s birthday, mum liked it, it was a little bit so-so for me, but all good. Picked up the hire car 13 June and we’ve hit up Kilkenny, Waterford and we are now in Cork. Went to Kilkenny Castle, Waterford Crystal factory – did a tour of both, whilst wandering down the coast towards Cork I saw a sign for the Jameson Distillery tour in Middletown, so we went in and did that – another excellent tour and another few hundred Euro’s gawwwwn haha – I managed to get a bottle of Irish Whisky that is ONLY available at the distillery, 12 year old stuff, so it’s good, the kicker is the label has my name on it!! yeap custom made!

That’s it for now, sitting in our hotel room at Cobh, mum and dad say hi to everyone as well!