Terrifying Tourists

We are armed with two underpowered rent a rally cars and digital film.

We awoke a little early but it was worse than we thought. Unbeknownst to us the fools decided that this weekend was the one to change out of daylight saving so we are all up at 5am. We did not figure this out till turned up for lunch at 11am and the restaurant owner freaked out in an entirely Irish way and insisted that they could not serve us till the food was cooked. I was getting ready to explain to them in my best Aussie Tourist Put Out voice that they could, when they explained that they had changed the clocks and had we fixed ours??? Opps, freaking crazy people. I have only just adjusted to 10 different timezones and then they rearrange them on my second day. Oh well getting cranky won’t help, make me feel better, but it definitely won’t help.

Well on with the day. We were off for a short trip day and went to a town of ruins, Glanworth. They had a ruined castle and ruined bridge and a ruined mill and ruined abbey beside another ruined abbey and 15 pubs in a town of 20 houses and 4 churches and no credit card facilities. You think I’m joking. The castle was just like a castle should be smaller chunks or rock stacked very neatly on top of another very large rock. And if you use your imagination it is exactly shaped like a stereo type castle. But the castle has very common roots it was the toll booth for the bridge. The bridge is psycho with about 6 inches on either side of a car. Oldest bridge in use in Europe and tight ass Irish won’t outlay to replace it. We stopped at one of the ruined abbeys to check out the graves and continue the competion to find the oldest grave we could the Winner was 1720. Holy Cow. These people worked, lived and died 70 years before Australia was even found. This only topped by the pub we saw in another town that was established in 1610.

Next on the list is Lock Gur. Irelands short and more distant cousin of Stone Henge. In ther area are quite a few little stone age rocks that range from somewhere between 10,000,000 years and 4000 years ago. The humorous thing about these is the new age and old fashion hippies that have claimed this as there dreadlocked, pot smoking front yard. Morons in every country.

Some of the roads are incredible National road that is 1 lane wide and bitumened 2 centuries ago. Great fun to get the rent a rally down. Well time for a new story. Waterford next and all the crystal we can afford, NONE.