Welcome back! For all you new readers, if you want to see some of my best work I suggest looking to my post about Belize or a personal favorite of mine, Millburn, NJ. For this semester, I am going to start looking towards the future travel that I never got to last semester. One of the places that I would visit and never leave is Ireland. Yes, I do know that there is a trip to Ireland for this class that I’m not going on, but that is besides the point. While not only being Irish, I have this weird story to tell about why I need to visit Ireland.
Before graduating high school, my teacher, Ms. Stritzl, made us do a 100 goal list of what we would accomplish in life. In reality, it was a bucket list. The bucket list included getting Penn State football tickets, finding someone to mentor, being happy in life, and most importantly visiting Ireland. As I was writing my list, I was thinking and I always wanted to visit Ireland, so I knew it would have to be included. However, I never knew how much I wanted to go. Not only did I say visit Ireland, in parenthesis next to it I wrote, “at least two times”. Now, I know what you are thinking that is a little strange and you are completely right. I have no idea why I decided that I had to visit Ireland two times but I know I will.
Looking past that to actually visiting Ireland is a whole other story. What am I going to do there, I’m not so sure but I can’t imagine a prettier place. All the hills and beautiful landscapes seems like the place to be. My older sister had a semester abroad where she not only visited Ireland but stayed there for an extended period of time. When I study abroad, I know it has to somehow relate to Ireland because otherwise I failed myself.
Ireland has so many things to do that I know that I wouldn’t be able to hit everything that I want to see. If you didn’t know I am very much so a history nerd. Visiting all the famous sites such as the Blarney Castle (yes, with the stone), Kylemore Abbey and Victorian Walled, and Dublin Castle, would be impossible to do in one trip because they are so spread out. To really enjoy a trip to places such as Ireland, you need to let yourself absorb the world around you and take in the beautiful scenery.
With all the pictures that are in this post, I’m sure that you can understand my desire to visit Ireland and hopefully, once I do I can share it with you right here.