Youghal and Ardmore

Hey everyone :-)

Last night was one full of many memories. We went to an old pub where we met an old Irish man by the name of Tom Barry. We talked to this man for about three hours about soooo many things. He had great stories to tell us! One story included his personal meeting of Bruce Springstein in a pub in Dublin. He ended up getting free tickets to his concert that night which was followed by a private concert at the pub that he was at. Tom was a civil engineer who is retired now and spends most of his time going to church, going to pubs and smoking. It was "a crack time!"

Today I went on a day trip to Eastern Ireland. We started in the city of Youghal which had many great sites in it. The town is home to 2000 people. It has one of the first ports in it which let in many famous people including Sir Walter Raleigh, who was a very big figure to Ireland. Sir Raleigh was famous for bringing tobacco and some Potatoes to the town of Youghal from America. He was great "friends" with Queen Elizabeth. He ended up illegally selling land that the Queen had given to him and was not liked by the Irish people.

Yougal was also the location of the famous Movie, Moby Dick. It holds the  oldest church in the country of Ireland.

Next we went on a walk through the cliffs of Ardmore. The sites were amazing from the cliffs. We also visited a cemetary in which St. Declan was buried. He was believed to be the first person to bring Christianity to Ireland even before St. Patrick.

Monday starts the first full week of school (by that I mean school on tuesday wednesday thursday) wish me luck!