Grey and green: The subtle beauty of Ireland

Ireland is fighting Germany for my favorite country.  

Irish people are snarky and comical: I wanted to spend my entire trip hanging out with my hysterical tour guide.  I wanted her to introduce me to all her friends and let me hang out in a pub with them where they taught me how to be Irish.

Irish food is delicious and seems the most homey: Guiness stews and vegetable soups.  Mmmmmm.

Ireland is really beautiful!

Rock 'n' Roll Dublin Half Marathon

Despite not running since setting foot on this continent almost 2 months ago, I still finished in 2:13:22. Yay!  

Ireland had people blessing it's constantly overcast skies for probably the first time ever.

By the way, Ireland?  Amazing.  Love it.  I want to keep my entries somewhat in order though, so more Paris articles later this week, then my adventures paragliding in Munich and soaking up the sun on the coast of Croatia.  

But for me, I'll be heading to Belfast on Thursday and then hopefully *crosses fingers and prays imploringly* getting a ferry to Scotland and getting to Edinburgh before 10pm on August 11.  After that I'll be traveling the rails again, this time across Great Britain.

So much to do before I come home September 10th!

Disclaimer:  I do not recommend my training schedule to anyone not wanting to hobble up and down three flights of steps to get to their room in the hostel.