On our long bus ride out to Galway we had several interesting stops. The best stop was at the famous Cliffs of Moher! They were absolutely beautiful and yet terrifying. I am no fan of heights and so I was a little freaked out about the 800 foot drop down to the water and rocks below.
Aside from the fact that these cliffs are amazing and gorgeous, there are also a couple awesome Hollywood moments that were filmed on these cliffs. The first few pictures (excluding the tower picture) are of the left side of the cliffs. On this side a part of the sixth Harry Potter was filmed. Yup, I got to be where Harry and Dumbledore were!
The other pictures where they seem a bit sunnier (including the one with me in it) are of the right side of the cliffs. It was there that a scene or two of Princess Bride were filmed... Inconceivable! We spent a good deal of time at the cliffs just enjoying the scenery. A few friends and I went and had lunch there as well and we had the closest thing to a real butter beer outside of the Harry Potter theme parks...ginger beer!
After lunch we wet back out to the cliffs again and just walked along the edge on the path and talked and enjoyed ourselves. You have to be very careful up there though because the winds were up to 50 miles an hour while we were there and that's why they have a railing now, because people have been blown off the cliffs before due to wind.
Some people were idiots and climbed over the railing and went right up the edge of the cliffs. I couldn't look because I thought any minute they would be blown off the edge.
While we were up there walking around it started to down pour for about 10 minutes and we tried to keep our hoods up so that at least part of us didn't get wet but the wind just wouldn't allow that. So eventually we gave up and just ran around in the rain like a bunch of 3 year olds. It was pretty fun, not gonna lie!
After a few hours we all piled back onto the bus and continued on towards Galway.
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