Galway adventures

Today was another very long travel day.  Spent time this morning traveling back to Dublin via bus.  We arrived back on the UCD campus and got settled right into our rooms.  Then 4 of us packed up a small bag and headed out on the road again.  We made our way into town on a bus so that we could catch a train to a town called Galway.  All the transferring around all day on different modes of transportation was a little crazy, but we made it to Galway without any scratches.  It was worth all the extra effort and I am grateful that these guys made this side trip up for us.  There are four of us on this little excursion and we are staying at a very cool little Bed & Breakfast right on the coast.  As I type up this blog in this very quant room with all of us working on our blogs I can see the ocean from the windows.  For dinner we went into town and explored the main downtown area.  We ended up at a great Italian restaurant called Cooke's and had a great meal.  My starter that I had was a delicious seafood chowder, followed by chicken and potatoes.  All of it was very flavorful, and after dinner we stopped at Gino's for some Italian gelato.  Gelato seems to be a theme for us no matter where we are at in Ireland.  We all seem to really love it!  Now that we are back at the B&B it is nice to sit back and relax.  I am ready to take some R&R and actually do just a little internal reflection time.  Gotta recharge my batteries a little bit.  Our internet is very, very slow, so my pictures for this post might be a little bit later.  Slán go fóill!