ireland day 5 - hello, my name is dean and i'm an addict...

july 19, 2007

i binged today. i'm not proud of it, but i couldn't help myself. it's just that they're so big and weathered and... old. i feel so... alive when i walk around their decaying walls. castles. i love castles. and not just castles, but old shit. i can't get enough.

my drive back to dublin revolved around castles and abbeys and shrines and more castles. they were all pretty sweet, except for enniskillen. although a significant castle, it was fairly disappointing because it was a functioning fort up until relatively recently so it doesn't seem as old as the others i visited. and it was turned into an irish war history museum. i have no interest in war history, especially irish war history. so i was disappointed. so disappointed that i had to take pictures of cathedrals. cathedrals are so 2000...

i blew off connemara again. there was no way i would've been able to see the ruins i wanted to see, drive to connemara, through connemara and back to dublin by 7pm. i just couldn't pull it off. nothing in ireland seems to be more than 100 miles away, it's just that driving that 100 miles might take you 4 hours. there are very few 120km/hr highways in ireland.

i made it back to dublin by 7pm. jake had planned for us to meet up with his craft beer chat group (that luise fondly dubbed his beer nerds) for a bit of beer tasting. i chatted with many irish beer connoisseurs about brewing craft beer (craft beer = home brew). i had a great time. and a lot of beer. i'm drunk for the first time in months. i'm going to be hung over tomorrow...