Lindsay's Misadventures in THE WORLD

So another post here we go--

Not much has been happening lately so i figured i'd share my bank holiday adventures with you all. In the UK and ROI they do bank holidays. Why they can't seem to find anything more special to celebrate than random days off dubbed bank holidays is beyond me (i mean really, look at how many birthdays and events we seem to celebrate in the US when we have FAR less history). Anyways this past weekend was a bank holiday and we decided to go camping with our mates Oisin and Caitlin as well as a bunch of Oisin's mates from Siemens.

So Saturday morning we packed up Caitlin's tiny little Ford Fiesta and headed down to Barleycove on the Mizenhead Penninsula, the most southern parts of Ireland. As it was a holiday everyone else and their mothers were on the road so it took us a while to get down there (and with so much crap packed in the car there were several painful scraping sounds). In any event we made it down there only to find the sunshine we left in Cork city was replaced by grey clouds in Western Cork. We met up with the rest of our camping buddies at a pub in Crookhaven and then made our way to Barleycove. Initially the plan was not to set up camp yet as technically camping wasn't allowed. But as we saw another tent already up in OUR spot we decided to do it anyways. We swam, the boys fished (didn't catch anything), flew kites, kicked soccer balls, drank beer and had a BBQ. Around 9:30 we started our bonfire which initially had pretty much everything but the kitchen sink in it. We fed it lots of peat logs and it managed to hold up quite nicely. And speaking of using our natural environment, we didn't bring any ice for the beer, so we decided that the best way to fix this was to put the beer in the ocean. Sadly we didn't have the coldest of drinks but it didn't really seem to matter. After campfire songs (one of Osh's mate's brought his guitar down) we hit the hay only to be woken up around 6am by a torrential downpour of rain. We stayed inside our tent which managed to stay pretty water free (and with an air mattress we were well off the ground) 'til the rain turned to drizzle around 10am and then we headed out.

Some photos...

A Jelly fish in the Crookhaven harbour