Baby Lambs and Dingle Town!

     To continue our trip to the West Coast of Ireland, we explored the Dingle Peninsula! To be very honest, the day we did this was one of my favorite days on the West trip so far! We took most of the day to explore and do some sightseeing. There were only six students and two of our professors on the bus that I was on so therefore we were able to really play the day by ear! Our first stop was so that we could stop and hold baby lambs! It was something that most of us on the bus had wanted to do for a while so when the bus driver asked if we wanted to stop it was a given! Holding that lamb was one of those moments that you can never forget, it brought so much happiness to not just me but all of us! 

    One of our other big stops was a beach, but it was not only that there was a mountain that we could climb. We were quite literally walking on the sheep's path up this mountain. Boy was it worth it though! The views from the top of that mountain were breathtaking. I know that I have said that about many of the views I have talked about but it is true for all of them! In a poem written by Seamus Heaney called "The Peninsula" he says "When you have nothing more to say, just drive/ For a day all round the peninsula." Oh, and did we drive. We just explored the peninsula. If we saw a place that we thought was pretty we would stop! Not only that but when we got back to town we explored the town and just to see what we could find! These are things that I love to do I find them to be very relaxing! Heaney later says "And drive back home, still with nothing to say" On our way back to the hotel I was thinking that this is a place that I would love to stay not only in Dingle but in Ireland as a whole! There is nothing else to say other than this country is so beautiful!