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this should have been posted yesterday...

Hey folks, there was no internet at the last hotel, so a little lapse in blogging. As you know, I am touring the whole country of Ireland, starting at around 9:00, and we went counter clockwise. Today and yesterday were spent in N. ireland (UK), and now we are in western Ireland at Galway.
But, before we get to that recap, how about another installment of things IRELAND SHOULD DO that America does. No hotel in Ireland has vent fans in the bathrooms, and they get really foggyish.
So starting with yesterday, we were on our way to Derry, also known as Londonderry. But before that, we had a beautiful excursion to the Giant’s causeway. Now, the legend says that the largest giant from Ireland dropped the gauntlet to challenge the largest giant from Scotland. The Irish giant built a walkway from Ireland to Scotland for the battle. The giant came from Scotland to do battle, but the Irish giant saw that it was outmatched. It dressed up as a baby. When the Scottish giant came and saw the baby, it was like, wow, I don’t want to even imagine what the father looks like, and it ran back to Scotland, destroying the pathway behind it. We hiked all around, and I have fantastic pictures.
From there we went to Londonderry, which is a place where a lot of conflict occurred between Irish and N. Ireland way back when. We had a guided tour, and a nice meal at the hotel for dinner. Stores close there by about 6pm, but a third of our group went out later that evening to one of the local places for fun.
Which now brings me to this morning, we left for Galway. Today has been mostly spent in the Coach bus…we had over 4 hours of driving to do today as we went from the far north of the country to the WNW part. We stopped at a folk park/museum that had all sorts of old homes. There were also chickens running around, and we fed them oats. One of our other rest stops was a church/graveyard where W.B.Yeats was buried.
As for tonight, we have successfully made it to Galway. Tomorrow we go to the cliffs of Moher, the burren, Ailwee cave.
Andrew