doing the tourist thing...

Today we're in Killarney and will be taking the 'Ring of Kerry' tour. We've been making our way down the west coast after spending last Thursday and Friday in Galway we began hiking south in an area called 'The Burren'. It is a geologically interesting place with tons of exposed limestone. We camped out on top of a mountain after a couple of brutal uphill sections on Sunday night. It rained and blew really hard. We got a bit wet but were none the worse for wear. We then trekked down the mountain into a little town called Doolin where we treated ourselves to a nice night in a decent hotel. At a pub in Doolin we were again treated to some sweet traditional Irish music. It was then onto the Cliffs of Moher (which was a major tourist trap - but really quite beautiful) before ending up last night in Killarney.

We plan on spending the next couple of days here in Killarney and checking out the lakes and mountains around here. There is a national park and some great forested land all around this town. After this its on to Cork and probably will be taking a ferry this weekend sometime to get over into northern France. We'll post again with more details and hopefully some pictures from the west coast of Ireland!