The Islands up north

The travels lately have been going great! I am currently in Dublin at the moment and am getting ready for a crazy Saturday night out on the town. Well, perhaps not too crazy, because the prices for stuff here is ridiculous. A pint of beer is 5 Euro, or about 7-8 dollars in pretty much any pub or bar. No way I can afford to go all night with prices like that. The city itself is great though, today we walked around for a while and ended at the Guinness brewery. After the tour we went up to the bar at the top of the brewery with a commanding 360 view of the city and enjoyed perhaps one of the best pints of Guinness that I have ever had. Way better then the ones you can get in the states.

The Canals in Amsterdam

Its been a wild ride up to Ireland as well. From Germany we rode the high speed train out to Amsterdam and spent almost a week there before catching a flight across the canal to London. London is a very expensive city, but one of its saving graces is the fact that all the museums are free. The history museums, art galleries, everything is free, so you can spend all day in the city seeing tons of cool stuff with out spending a penny. This was a great suprise to us and was probably the only reason why we didn't go broke during our 5 night stay there.

Windmills!

We couchsurfed for part of the time there, but we stayed the last few night with some friends of mine that I met during my travels in Romania this last summer. It was cool to see them again a lot of fun to spend time with them on their own turf. We also got to meet one of my dads good friends from when he used to live in London, and get some good dirt on my dad, info that we will undoubtedly hold over his head when I return home (heads up dad!).

So that about catches up things to now. There are only two more nights left before I have to board my flight back to the states, so I have to try and make the best of them. Tomorrow I hear the plan is to go join this big group of people and jump into the sea, a very Irish tradition apparently. Sounds cold to me though, but when in Rome.....