Intermission: FOOD

Before we get back to showing you lovely pictures of our stay in Ireland, a word about food.

As I told Nicole before we got here, no one comes to Ireland for the cuisine. Normally, when we're on vacation (or "on holiday" as they call it here) we like trying new and exciting dishes. Thus, when offered a "Full Irish Breakfast," despite my protestations, Nicole said yes. It comes with an egg and hashbrowns (which aren't too bad), rashers (a cross between bacon and ham), sausage (real ones, not what American's think of as breakfast sausages), baked beans, half a mini-tomato, and black pudding and white pudding (I won't tell you what that is, but it's completely solid). It's not lovely. And it's really greasy.
It also includes tea*

After that, it wasn't hard to convince Nicole that the real delicacies here were 1 European Chocolate and 2 the amazing flavors of crisps (American: potato chips), quite enjoyable were "roasted chicken" and "tomato basil and aromatic flavours." That last one was seriously, like a symphony in your mouth.
Also, my person favorite and the item that I most looked forward to having again after 8 years without, curry chips! (American: steak fries)

Trust me, they're better than they look. LOTS better. I think we've ordered them like 11 times now.

None of this is terribly healthy, good thing we're doing lots of walking!

*So, speaking of tea, we've had a range of hotel and bed and breakfast places. Some were really cheap and had most of the typical amenities stripped away (like no free local calls, no shampoo in the rooms, etc). However, every single room had a tea/coffee maker, mugs, tea bags and milk/sugar, etc. Priorities, I suppose. Good thing we had that Tea Party in Boston to kick the habit.