The Burren and the Cliffs of Moher

The Burren and the Cliffs of Moher

Dia dhuit! (This means hello in Irish if you didn't know already.) 

As usual, we started our day with English classes at the Atlantic language school, and the lessons there never fail to impress. We talked about really interesting topics, e.g. whether or not a drug called Juicy Baek (which turned out to be alcohol!) should be legal or if certain questions were (in-)appropriate. Right after the English classes had finished, we headed off to the Cliffs of Moher.  On the way there we saw lots of interesting old castles and so on and we also went through the Burren, a karst landscape, which basically consists of rocks and just a few plants.

When we finally arrived at the car park near the cliffs, we were all eager to see them - and we weren't disappointed! The view was just breathtaking and we took a lot of amazing pictures, which all turned out great, especially because of the weather (slowly, but surely, we are getting used to the Irish weather, so a cloudy day with lots of wind, but no rain means fantastic weather!). Yet, what really needs to be emphasised is the danger of the cliffs - many people die whilst trying to take a cool snap of the cliffs, because they ignore the barricades, climb over them and are then blown off by the wind. Fortunately, we didn't have any tragic incidents there and all students were able to return to their host families alive (even though some people were so knackered that they didn't feel very alive any more).

 

While we were going "home" to our host families, we looked through our photos again and were very pleased, because they looked so nice!

To sum up, today was definitely one of the nicest days so far, especially in terms of weather conditions.

Good night and xo