The final days of my European Adventure

So sorry to have not updated since I went to sea. It has been an active couple of days. So yesterday morning I got up and checked out of my B&B. It was still a little early so I got some coffee and waited dock side for the time to come to go looking for the boat. I started to think that hey, these guys are being really generous. I should bring something. We are going to be out on the boat all day drinking and fishing, and they're irish cops...so I bought some booze.

I was a little off in my assumptions. The boat was not the pleasure crafts I am used to seeing floating around the lakes in the US. Oh no. This was a massive sailing vessle. It was amazing. We (me and Dan, Jarleth, Brian and Brendon) sailed out of the bay and around the peninsula to a small island called Blasket Moor. Sailing the boat was constant work. Pulling up sails, releasing lines, etc... Once we arrived on the Island, which up till the potato famine was populated, we hiked up to the top of it with simply stunning views.

Arriving home at 8:00 I said my thank yous and headed up the hill to find a place to stay. All of the B&B's were closed and I couldn't find anyone to answer the door so I finally found one, a little inconveniently located, that would give me a room for the night. The room smelled, was small and hungered for charm. And it was 55 euros a night. I took it out of lack of options.

After settling in I promptly headed back to the boat and the wonderful cops fed me. It was great. Sausages, burgers, wine, etc... all grilled and eaten on the boat. Then, after Jarleth made some amazing gin and tonics, we headed to the bars.

Good times were had

At 3:30 in the morning, and just a few sheets to far into the wind, I decided that I didn't want to spend the night at that B&B. So I snuck in, got my stuff and put my key on the abandoned clerk's desk. I sat down to try to use the internet, when this gruff eastern european came out and confronted me about being in there. He asked if I put the key on the desk. I don't like gruff eastern europeans, so I lied, I said no. He then told me he had seen me and pointed at the camera? I looked at him quizzicly and asked why he was watching a camera monitor at 3:30 in the morning. He again asked if I was staying and I told him that no I wasn't.

"Then no internet"

Throwing my stuff back into the car I headed back, once more to the marina, to spend times with my new friends. Now I am not sure but I think we went to bed around 5:30. But the sun was coming up.

I awoke around 12 and said my goodbyes, once more. Now, at 8:00 I am in a hotel room in Dublin having decided to splurge and treat myself to a nice, big, hotel room.

Ahhhhh pamper me!

Tomorrow Copenhagen