Summer Vacation

After a long time off I finally found some time and the right temper to put some pics from my summer vacation online. I have been on tour with Claudia and Anja and Markus from Germany.
Like the common tourist we started our tour in Dublin including a visit to the Guinness brewery at St. James Gate. I absolutely do not recommend visiting this place as it is a dull and uninspired tourist rip-off. The only good thing is the pint at the gravity bar at the end. Other than that Dublin is a nice city including interesting spots such as the castle or Kilmainham prison.

After Dublin we made our way across the midlands to the wes. The two following pictures were taken at the Clonmacnoise monastery.




Our travelmates Markus and Anja from my point of view.


We also went for another hike in Connemara. The view was great because there were different layers of clouds so that at some point one could be between two layers of clouds on top of a hill. Unfortunately it was not possible to capture that equitable so you have to do with this one:



The last part of our journey was the famous Ring of Kerry.

About 2 hours by boat are the skelligs. These are two little islands of which one holds old cloister buildings dating back as far as the 12th century. This island can be travelled to only on small fishing boats. On the way there we even saw a swarm of dolphins. The smaller island is inhabitated by thousands of birds. What looks like snow on the following picture is actually an enormous flock of birds.

At last we even found a nice beach near Inch were the water temperature and the weather allowed for swimming.


And even some bit of flying. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has this to say on the subjectof flying: "There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." (Douglas Adams)