This was quite an eventful tour. Firstly, the tailpipe fell off the bus, and became a passenger on the backseat along with everyone else.
Then at Kylemore Abbey, an impatient grumpy Irish tour bus driver (smelling strongly of whisky) leapt into our bus and tried to move it on because he thought we were parked in his way
The last shock was finding out that Jack Doolan in that song 'The Wild Colonial Boy' is actually 'Jack Duggan' (we saw the pub and heard the song to prove it!)
P.S. If you are Catholic and you don't have a sense of humour, stop here!!!
Check out what's actually written on the signs.
If you want, you can go buy a small plastic bottle in the shape of the virgin Mary (and various other icons) for 50 Euro cents and fill it up with real official Holy Water!
During the irish potato famine, a group of starving Irish natives toiled through this valley for three days to ask their english landowner for food... but they were refused and many died on the walk back home.
This is where the grumpy (and we think slightly drunk) Irish driver from another tour bus jumped in and tried to move our bus !!
I certainly didn't expect to be frolicking on golden beaches in Ireland!
The door is actually a couple of metres off the ground, and the natives would climb in and pull the ladder up after them
then wait till the Vikings/anti social elements/uninvited guests got sick of burning and pillaging, and left.
This is at the County Tipperary, and was the site of much burning, bloodshed and mayhem. Oh there was a bit of praying too.
