Europe

Ok, so I am horrible at posting to my blog. I guess it doesn't really matter, since I don't know if anyone even reads it... However, I like it and I guess in the end thats all that matters.

In February Emily and I decided to go to the UK. We bought the tickets last minute, and only made one hotel reservation. It was fun and exciting to go on a whim, however, in the end I think we decided we would plan out our next trip.

We flew into London Heathrow... After standing in line at customs forever, we finally got through and headed to the rental car counter. Only there wasn't a counter for the company I had reserved with? After much frustration, and a few telephone calls, we found out they weren't located at the airport, as my reservation said, but rather they were located off site, which required a bus ride, which we had to pay for, at 8 Pounds each. I don't think so, we canceled that reservation and were able to make another one with Avis right there at the airport. We got a tiny little Fiat with a stick shift.

I won't go into the entire Trip, I will just post the highlights. First we made a few discoveries, one was that Wales is a really cool place, and we should have spent more time there. We found Tintern Abbey on the side of a windy road, this place was way cool. It was a Cistercian Abbey built in the late 13th century. One of the coolest parts of this stop was that Emily and I didn't plan it at all, we came around a bend in the road and saw it and we were both speechless. While we were walking around inside the weather was kind of overcast a drizzling. There were some crows flying around and cawing off in the distance, giving it a very magical effect. It was something straight out of a fantasy land. We used the rest of that day to make our way up the coast to Caernaforn. Here we went to a really cool castle, Caernaforn Castle. What I really liked about it was that it was not very commercialized. Emily and I were free to roam the castle as we pleased.

Ireland, well don't go to Cork. We went to Irealnd and had a pretty good time, minus the drunk IRA members we met in Cork. Dublin was a very cool town, and of Course we had to go the the Guinness Factory. Surprisingly however that wasn't the highlight of Dublin. Rather the Highlight was the library at Trinity College. That is were we had a chance to see the Book of Kells and its older predecessors.

Well that is all I have time for now. Tune in next time to see pics from the Highlands of Scottland and York Minster!