Ireland

Ah, oh Ireland!! This has been on the bucket list for both of us!! It was just fantastic!! We went to Guinness, Blarney Castle, Cliffs of Moher, Kilkenny Castle, and Dublin!

Everyone knows about Guinness beer and to go to where it all started, it was awesome!! Guinness was founded back in 1759 by Arthur Guinness. It was an incredible experience to see how and what they use to produce the beer, see where it started, taste, and have a 360 degree of Dublin! It was 6 stories of pure awesomeness!!

 

The Blarney Castle was such a treat to see! It was mostly ruins now but just looking at it, one could picture the awe it must have been back in the mid 15th century! The ladies participated in the “kissing of the stone” which is said to give those who kiss it Good Luck. In order to kiss the stone, one must lay on their backs, grab the handrails, and then lower you head back quite far down and kiss the stone, no worries though-they DO sterilize multiple times a day!!

The Cliffs of Moher may have been one of the most amazing sites. To stand there and look at the water hit the cliff walls, it was so peaceful, relaxing, and memorizing-couldn’t decide on which adjective to use, so you get all 3!! lol

 

Killkenny was a beautiful town with a beautiful castle! The castle use to have 4 sides, but during a war they had to demolish one of the sides leaving it with only 3 sides. If you ask me though, it just gave them a better view of the gorgeous green land on the castle territory. Now, that land is used as a public park where one can see kids playing ‘football,’ or soccer in America, families having picnics, and friends and family just enjoying the gorgeous land.

 

We could not showcase all of our pictures of the amazing Ireland, therefore check HERE for some of the pictures!!!

England

AH, England was just beautiful!! The only down side, NO it’s not the rain, we didn’t have enough time to see everything England had to offer!! So, we narrowed it down to a few things; Stonehedge, a Roman Bath, London, and the theatre-district! We felt horrible for Dad Shelly who had to drive, on the wrong side of the road for us!!

Stonehenge was an interesting place, it was out in the middle of no-where! Literally! There are thinking that it is a prehistoric monument where that they used for pagan religion and spiritual worship dating back 5,000 years. However, they do not know if that is what it was and if it was, they don’t know the exact purpose!

Roman Bath was a step into Roman times in England! We felt that we stepped into a town in Italy with all the Roman architecture it displayed. The Bath was built around 2,000 years ago!!!

London was just incredible!!! There was so much too see, you couldn’t see everything in a week!!!!! The best decision we made was to do a hop-on, hop-off bus tour of London! It took us all around and gave us an opportunity to see everything without the horror of not being able to walk the next day!! One of the coolest things we did was to see a show on the historic West End. The West End is known as the theatre-district or the Broadway district in New York! Just walking around the West End you will see over a dozen of theatres all hosting different famous shows from Mama-Mia to a Journey show! We, mainly the ladies, hopped on the opportunity to see Wicked, which has been a dream of ours forever!! It was just fantastic and had the same quality you would see on Broadway in New York.

Sadly, we can not post ALL the pictures we took, as it was close to over a thousand!! However, we did post some of our favorites to our Flickr account!! Check out HERE for some wonderful pictures of England.

Wurstmarkt-Sausage Festivals

Wurstmarkt, translated is Sausage Festivals are one of those famous German traditions you MUST participate in! This year we did 2 different Sausage Festivals.

The Wine Festival of the Middle Moselle in Bernkastel-Kues was the first one we hit up!! It was such a fun festival with lots of delicious foods, wine, vendors, crazy rides, and an incredible firework show.

Our next Sausage Festival was probably one of the MOST famous Wurstmarkt, Bad Durkheim, which just happens to be names after the town it is in. Bad Durkheim Festival has been a growing tradition in Germany for around the last 500 years!!!! It was so awesome to be there and think how people have been coming here for the last 500 years!!!