Ireland - England 2012

Galway and Connemara

Tom packed up and checked into the hotel provided by Royal Meath: Carlton at Blanchardstown.  I stayed back as I was going on another full day tour today.

My day started early again, waking up at around 5:45am as I had to catch a taxi to the train station to travel to Galway, west of Ireland.  To get from east to west the ride took about 2 hours to complete and that included about 15 stops in between.  A coach with about 12 others were waiting for us Dubliners (2 of us on the train).  The other person was a retired nurse living on Kangaroo Island and had already been on holidays for 7 weeks our of 8.

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