The Rest of the Tour

After the walking tour, we rejoined the bus and our next stop was this dolmen:There were actually much more tourists around than this picture shows - the place was crawling with us! I think there were at least 2 bus fulls, and a lot of people who had driven there as well. We only had 10 minutes - they keep you on a strict schedule - but it was cool anyway. According to the bus driver when it was built 5000-6000 years ago it would have been covered with a large mound of dirt and rocks, and there would have been more large standing stones around it. There are something like 32 people that were excavated here, buried over a 600 year time period. The current theory is that the dolmen was a place where you could go into the mound and isolate yourself from the world so as to better commune with your ancestors. I've never heard that at other dolmen, so I'm a bit sceptical, but either way it's an impressive that they were interested in building it so long ago, and that it has survived this long.

The next stop was the Cliffs of Mohr, which are one of the biggest tourist attractions in Ireland. They are quite scenic, and the weather was beautiful today. (Apparently yesterday they were covered in fog.) Here's a picture of the cliffs looking south:
And here's looking north - you can see how big the waves coming in from the Atlantic are: (These cliffs are much taller than this picture shows.)
We had lunch around 3, and then we had one last stop at this castle:
I can't remember the name of the castle because we passed at least 10 named castles or ruins of castles. I guess it's not that hard to build a castle after all. We also passed a llama farm on the way home, which everyone else on the bus seemed to think was absolutely fabulous. Having had personal experience with llamas at girl scout camp long ago, I was not as excited. (Especially since my recollection is that by the time you got the llama to do something (like carry your lunch to the top of the mountain) you would have been better off just doing it yourself.)

The comedy show last night was good, and not as mean to Americans as it could have been. There were a lot of jokes about Catholicism, most of which I think I got. Also, apparently theatre licenses allow you to serve alcohol whenever you want, so even though all the bars were closed for Good Friday and no supermarkets were allowed to sell liquor either, I was able to have a pint of Guinness.