Hello.
I am currently in Ireland
and I just left of Dublin and I am on my way to Ukraine.
But first I'm going to make a stop in Drogheda,
I think I pronounced that correctly,
and it is on the way, it's really really close to Newgrange.
I'm going to stop there and see if I can catch some breakfast
before I head to Newgrange.
I forgot to mention that Drogheda is one of the oldest towns in Ireland.
So, that's pretty cool.
Breakfast didn't really work out.
It was a little bit complicated.
It was gonna take too much time
and I really needed to get to Newgrange.
So, that is where we are headed now.
Alright. We get it.
So, I ended up going through the wrong entrance.
There is a specific entrance to go to
and they link to it in their website.
So, if you want to come here, make sure you do that.
Cool.
Just got to the visitor center, I've got my tickets.
And there is an exhibition that's over here,
and it exhibit the bus,
the shuttle that is going to actually take us to the Newgrange site.
That is about a ten minute walk.
So, I might just do that first
because I'm kind of short on time and the shuttle leaves at 10:15,
it's currently almost 10 o'clock, so.
This is cool.
Buses.
I spot a bus.
And a cow.
We've just got here.
This is the entrance.
I won't be able to film inside of the chamber
just because that is not allowed, is just very complicated.
So, this is a UNESCO World heritage Site.
So, that was fascinating. Incredible.
I wish that I could have film the inside of it because...
Alright. I tried to edit around this footage and it was impossible.
The noise was just unbearable.
So, I'm just gonna go over real quick
what I was talking about in this one clip
which is that inside there were a bunch of stones
and they were placed in very specific order.
This whole area was built in the Neolithic era.
So, it's about 5,000 years old,
that is older than Stonehenge and older than the Egyptian pyramids.
And inside there were stones
and they had carvings with triangles and spirals and lines.
Everything about it seemed very, very specific,
like there was a very specific reason
for everything to be in the place that it was,
except that we don't really know.
We just have theories as to what it all means,
but in the end, was it aliens?
I don't know.
Alright guys. So, we just found some of the artwork.
So, if you zoom in there,
you can see the spirals and the triangles.
What does it mean?
I can't even describe what it feels like to be here.
I feel like this is the start of humanity right here.
Started up here.
No entry.
What does it mean?
Stop by the cafe here at the visitor center
to grab a bite to eat for heading on the road
because we're gonna be on the road for a few hours.
So, I got this Irish sausage roll.
So, I've never tried it before
I have no idea what exactly is in it except for yes, the sausage.
There's actually quite a lot to choose from.
That's really good.
I'm gonna check out the exhibit real quick
before I head out on the road
since I didn't get a chance to do that.
Wow.
Oh, oh.
Oh, this is so cool.
I swear I just saw something.
I just saw something run across... Oh.
Wow. OK.
So, scientists have investigated DNA
from the ear bone of a dog found at Newgrange.
So, I did forget to mention, Newgrange is kind of a tomb site.
So, when they first discovered it, there were remains there.
More importantly, there were five remains,
not sure of who they were or why they were there,
the significance behind all of that.
Of course, all remains a mystery.
Wow.
Oh, we were just there.
That's the inside.
It's going on around, it moved.
Point at that one and maybe it'll happen.
Wow.
So, this is kind of what it looked like from the inside.
This was all built so that when the Sun shines in,
it goes directly and illuminates the entire tomb.
Really fascinating stuff.
That exhibit was really, really good.
So, now I'm gonna get in the car and head to Galway,
we're gonna go check out the Connemara National Park,
I think I pronounced it,
maybe it's wrong, I don't know.
Connemara.
This is Connemara, con son of the sea.
So, this is a map of the Connemara loop,
and right now we are in Recess.
And we are staying in Letterfrack.
Just got to the village of Letterfrak
and I am staying at this place called Cloverfox.
This is right in the heart of National Park.
This place has a restaurant/pub attached to it.
But right across the street there is another restaurant.
And so, we went there for dinner and it was so good.
They have really amazing seafood and just the ambiance was just so...
We are going to get the salmon,
looks good,
and some calamari, calamari.
That looks good.
Definitely, definitely recommend that.
Now, I am gonna go to sleep
and I'm gonna continue this tour of Connemara National Park tomorrow.
And hopefully we're gonna go to Diamond Peak
and do a little bit of hiking there.
This is the next morning.
Very windy.
Also, it's raining a little bit.
So, we're gonna skip hike.
But we're gonna keep driving and continue on the Connemara loop.
That's probably very cold.
So far today, we started in Letterfrak,
went all the way around here,
all the way through here and then here,
and are currently entering right here.
And we will continue on the road toward Galway
and on to Cork.
So, we made it to Galway and we're just walking around now
to check out some of the stuff,
there is sea around here and then keep walking.
Look at all the animals we can spot around here.
Oh, bats in the city.
There's bats in the city.
Seems like half of Ireland is under construction.
What is this?
The hall of the red Earl.
The remains of this medieval Hall were discovered on the site
of an extension to the Custom House Galway in the summer of 1997.
This is cool, it's just in the middle of this bustling city.
That's a mood.
I love the street, is full of shops and cafes, restaurants.
Wow.
This place is so cool.
We're gonna get the breaded prawns
and the traditional Irish stew.
That restaurant was amazing
and the food was great and the ambiance was super chill.
Now, I'm at this other spot where I'm getting some hot chocolate to go.
You're eating a brownie already?
He's making it pretty.
This is the most beautiful hot chocolate I've ever seen in my entire life.
Well, we've made it to Cork
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