Monday, October 10, 2011

I'm going through the green glass door and I'm bringing.. Ennis!

Today was another tour day - we drove around Dingle Peninsula, stopping a couple times to look at the sea and explore the town of Dingle. The westernmost point of the peninsula where we stopped to get off the bus and take pictures of the literally breathtaking view (the wind knocked us back!) was the most beautiful view of the ocean I think we've seen so far. The water was still choppy, deep and grey, but it was a light blue where it crashed against the rocks where the cliffs met the sea. Many pictures were taken, and we got back on the bus with very tangled hair to make our way to Dingle where we stopped for lunch and shopping. Many deals were found and tummies filled, and we stopped in one more town to stretch our legs before we made it to our hotel in Ennis around 5:30pm.

With the too delicious pub food, gifts for friends (there's apparently such a thing as being too generous when you're in a foreign country with a limited amount of euros and ATM's), and all the sheep merchandise (irresistible), we're all running a little short on money. So, tonight for dinner, our genius selves came up with the perfect solution: don't eat such expensive food. Four of the girls split a pizza and two of us got pasta from a little pizza place called Numero Uno in Ennis. We sat around a little table and talked about Catholic Mass and TV shows while we waited for what turned out to be delicious food that we took back to the hotel and ate powwow style around the pizza box in the floor of one of the rooms.

Ennis is, like all of the towns we've been in, so lovely and charmingly European. Now we're getting ready to go on the hunt for some traditional Irish music in some of the pubs before we come back to get some rest for the Aran Islands tomorrow - Slán agat, everyone!

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