Photo recap... {take 1}

At long last, all of my photos are up on Picasa, so please go watch all 219 of them on the lovely slideshow feature. I am proud to say that I was gone for a full month and I only posted 219 of the 400 some photos I took - which is MUCH better than the 278 out of 700-ish photos from Christmas holiday (it was a full week shorter). Granted I went to eleven cities in eight countries over those three weeks and this time it was only eight cities in five countries this time... and yes, I did just say ONLY... Anyway, it was the perfect vacation in my mind, I can't think of what I would change. To give you a taste of the massive slideshow here are a few good ones...

Galway harbor...

The dramatic Cliffs of Moher - a lovely day trip showed us these

the cute afraid of heights couple peering over a cliff

Guiness factory - fresh pint overlooking the city of Dublin

Trinity College in Dublin...

To recap, Ireland was a good start to the break. It was wonderful to see Molly again and get to see where she is studying, living and learning. Galway was beautiful and relaxed. Mary, Brandon and I gave Mol a chance to write some papers and headed out to see the Cliffs of Moher and some other neat sights around Galway. Mary left from there to see her parents in Paris and then Brandon and I moved onto Dublin (via non traditional transportation... ). Brandon and I saw all of the main sights and avoided the heaviest rains. It was neat to finally see to Ireland. We even got to go on a musical pub crawl to hear traditional Irish music and drink a bit of Guiness and Bulmers (cider... for those of you that have never had English or Irish cider... put it on your to do list). However, after only three days in Dublin, I was ready for something less touristy...

Fortunately, I headed to London for a few days... by MYSELF. While it was not new territory or anything special, I really enjoyed travelling alone. I stayed in a nice place we had stayed in before and spent my time walking along the Thames, having picnic lunches in parks, seeing the monuments I had not yet seen, and reading in random sunny spots.

Well rested and happy with my alone travel, I headed back to the airport to fly to Southern France.