Day 5: Drive to Galway

Wednesday we got up and had a leisurely morning before heading off to Galway. We took the longer, more scenic route over the mountains and by way of ferry to the Cliffs of Moher, through The Burren, and into town. One of the coolest things we've seen on the trip was the tomb at Poulnabrone, a 6,000 year old slab tomb.









After finding out hotel (first time driving in an actual city!) we wandered around, found a good dinner spot, and then went to a pub for a pint and some more music. Great music, real pub atmosphere this time (more bar-like than combo bar/restaurant). One of the musicians played a really interesting instrument called a "bodhran" which is an upright drum. The right hand used a sort of two-headed drumstick that he'd use by rapidly rotating his wrist while his let hand moved up and down on the other side of the skin, changing the sound by damping the vibration in different ways.

A note on driving: it didn't take long to mostly adjust driving on the left side. The harder part was remembering, as cars rounded corners in front of me, that they weren't in my lane! It's so ingrained to look at that side of the road and react when someone's in "our lane" that very frequently occurred moments of brief panic. Otherwise, the challenge was navigation (our GPS unit is CRAP for signal) and overall road width!