Jeremy and I went to the '
Cliffs of Insanity' (Princess Bride) today, which are actually the Cliffs of Moher (Mo-her). Can I just say wow!!??!! Those are so amazing! You can walk right up to the edge with no railing- so one bad slip and you'd be gone. But, oh man, the exhilaration, and the overwhelming sensation of it all was brilliant. This is the first time I have actually seen the Atlantic Ocean and it was big- and I mean BIG! But then you add on standing on top of these crazy cliffs that are literally straight down, the site was breath-taking.
We left this morning and headed out on M4 (the tollway). After a while we didn't want to be on the highway anymore but we figured just to go out to the cliffs and then mossy-on back a different route through the country side later. Let me tell you something. After our little venture today, the little tiny roads that they have in town (about the size of two parking stalls next to each other with no shoulders and cars parked on the sides) those were large compared to these roads. There was barely enough room for both cars to fit on the road- but thats not even the part thats interesting. Yes, they were tiny roads where if you are not careful you will, and I mean it, you will run into another car. So, naturally you assume you will have slower speeds right. Ya, wrong... The speed limit was crazy. For those tiny roads you were able to go up to 100 km/h (kilometers/hour- for you Americans not used to the metric system that's 62mph on those tiny roads.) Crazy wicked fast to go over curvy, bumpy, with walls on either side right on the line and no shoulder roads. I am not going to lie- I was kind of nervous for the entire country side drive. I can only imagine what Jeremy was feeling since he was driving.
This put aside, the trip was totally worth it! It was a part of Ireland I probably wouldn't get to see and its the part that is always in the movies that makes you fall in love with Ireland. The scenery was so beautiful that I don't know if I can explain it. Not fairly anyways. I will try to upload some pictures so you can see what I am talking about, but even then, the pictures don't do any justice.
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| The beautiful country side as we were on the motorway. |
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This was the visitors center. It was all built inside the hill.
It reminded me of the Hobbit. |
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| The cliffs in a row. Of course, its not all of them. |
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O'Brian's tower was built back in the 17th century for tourists.
Even back then they had a problem with tourists. |
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| If you turn around this is what you see. A beautiful little village. |
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| An Branan Mor, Sea Stack |
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| Hags Head View |
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| Jeremy taking some pictures. |
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| I really don't know what this was, just that it was under lock and key. |
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| The Country side on the way back. |
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| You zoom in you can see the Ocean. |
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| Another old church. |
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This is what I would expect the houses to look like, but they don't.
At least not all of them. |
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| Dunguaire Castle |
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The castle was over looking a beautiful waterfront.
(I am not sure if it is the ocean or just a lake.) |
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