The Ireland leg begins…..

G’day all,
Well it has been a while since my last update mainly due to either not much happening or too much partying. My best mate Tate came and joined Sean and I at the “Kings Arms” on the Saturday before we headed off to Ireland. It was a huge celebration for the 3 of us to be finally re-united after not being together for 14 months and we really showed the English how to party that night. There were champagne corks flying left right and centre and we all ended up singing songs and wrestling until the early hours of the morning in front of a pub full of amazed English onlookers. On the Tuesday we got our 1 pound (+ about 30 pounds of extra charges) flight from London to Dublin on Ryan Air. We expected the worse as we heard the flights were really dodgy and disorganized however surprisingly it all went smooth as a jar of vegemite. I was so glad to finally be making progress again in the trip as doing nothing and being too cheap to do anything in England was doing my head in as I felt so helpless. Once we arrived in Dublin we found a cheap hostel, looked around for a bit, then sniffed out the cheapest we can eat and drink. We spent 2 nights in Dublin and all we really did was party and sleep in. I did get to meet up with a good friend of mine Elise who I met in Thailand last year so that was really cool. Dublin was a cool city but it was still way too expensive and big for us boys so we got a bus out to Galway on the Thursday. My cousin Dan met us at the bus-stop when we arrived and he let us crash on his floor for the first few nights until we settled in. I was also really excited to find out that our Welsh friend Kate who travelled with us through Thailand and Cambodia was staying with Dan. We instantly fell in love with Galway as the city has such a good feel to it. It’s so pretty and happening, and it has a great buzz about the place. After planning to have a quiet one Thursday night it ended up being another blinder as we also partied with Dan’s kiwi housemates Dom and Victoria and his other Adelaide housemate Shane. On Friday it was my 25^th birthday so we made it 4 nights out in a row. After spending 2 nights on Dans lounge room floor we were pretty keen to find our own place. On Saturday we hit the jackpot as we got a place right in the town for only 55 euros each a week and moved in instantly so we were thrilled to bits. We were so happy with our place we ended up throwing a house party and had everyone over for drinks before heading out on our 5^th night out in a row. The night life in Galway is fantastic. There are pubs and clubs everywhere you look and they all seemed to be packed out. In Ireland it’s illegal to smoke in pubs and bars now so it’s really weird seeing all these people standing outside the pub in the cold for a smoke. The past two weeks have been really fun however so costly and the alarm bells for my cash flow situation are ringing very loudly. Since Monday I’ve been on a job seeking rampage walking the streets of Galway with a pile of resumes under one arm handing them out everywhere. Today I got so desperate I noticed a tanning salon and an adult book shop advertising for full time positions so I had to blush and suck it up and hand over my resume to them. We’ve been in Galway for 5 days now and apart from the weather…We all love the place!!!!

That’s all for now,

Woodsy