IRELAND, Barberstown Castle

WOULD SOMEONE POINT US IN THE DIRECTION OF STRAFFAN PLEASE!!!!!

Oh Ireland. It’s simply beautiful. Vermont’s long lost twin. And oh the joy of driving in the city of Dublin…….NOT. Ireland was the only place during our whole trip where we rented a car....and almost killed each other. In retrospect, it seriously cracks me up so bad! Needless to say, it started out a tad frustrating. Ok, tad? How about more like a Tad TIMES A THOUSAND. BUT, we figured it out and eventually got ourselves the hell out of the Dublin area and on our way to our first destination, Barberstown Castle. We later went back to Dublin but not until our last day there, after we dropped our rental car off, and took a bus into the city (the way to see Dublin, it was a very plush bus, not a city bus, and it only cost us around 4 euros). We spent 3 nights in the Barberstown Castle. When we arrived we were greeted by the castle’s Golden Retreiver “Harvey". Yay! I got my doggy fix! Barberstown Castle was so very very charming & cool. However, we didn’t actually stay in one of the original castle stone walled room. Our suite was really beautiful. And, It turns out its ok we didnt get that original room because when they were giving us a tour of the castle, per our request, (which was very small, not like you would think of when you think castle) they told us one time, in one day, 3 couples went in and RIGHT BACK OUT of Room #10 as quick as you could blink, ha! i guess the stone walls freaked them out…..AND THE SMELL. We can attest to the smell (bordering Stench!!!) that original castle walls emit - it is kind of gross!! we came across this quite a few times when we visited some castle & tower ruins along the way – I kept saying to justin that the smell of all of these old stone walls & ruins, the ones that were enclosed still, reminded me of what old bones or stale blood would smell like – sounds great doesn’t it? They were still so cool!

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