From the Emerald City to the Emerald Isle

Hello! A quick check in from the 1/2 of We Trip We Fall currently hiking in Ireland. We've been hiking for 5 days a quick overview:

Day 1: Glendalough-Knockree on Wicklow Way Trail 17 miles. Anyone who is familiar with hiking in the Pacific Northwest would feel right at home hiking the Wicklow Mountains. Everything looked, felt and even smelled familiar. Pine and fir forests, cool-ish weather, similar elevations. Being the first day, we were a bit slow...ok really, really slow on this one. It took us 10 hrs to complete. But in our defense we had a lot of hills to climb and valleys to descend into. The weather was also crazy. Rain for 5 minutes, roasting sun for 5 minutes followed by gale force winds. Repeat that sequence for 10hrs and you have our day. But really beautiful views (pictures to come later).

Day 2: Knockree-Dublin Wicklow Way Trail 14 miles. More of what the previous day had, only we were much quicker arriving at Marlay Park by 3pm (the end/beginning of the Wicklow Way). Caught a bus to the train station and a train to Tralee. Met two wonderful ladies, Betsy and Ann on the train and proceeded to chat with them for the entire 4 hr ride.

Day 3: Tralee-Camp on Dingle Way 11 miles. This hike is on the west coast of Ireland, think farmland instead of forests. Deceptively easy day started out well with lots of sun. All went well until the last 2/3rds when the path became extremely boggy, very rocky and I fell and turned my ankle for the second time this trip. There were also cows.

Day 4: Camp-Annascaul Dingle Way 11 miles. This was the easy day we needed. We were in Annascaul before 3pm, arrived in full sun. Unfortunately it was all road walking so our feet were killing us, but we made good time and saw some great views. Annascaul is a really cute town. No cows.

Day 5: Annascaul-Dingle on Dingle Way 12 miles. A lot of road walking today as well, some great views of Minard Castle and the coast. Road walking was broken up with significant time spent crossing pastures...lot's of cows. We arrived in Dingle at about 3:30 foot sore (I have a big blister on my pinky toe) and amazed at how many people there were.

Ireland By The Numbers:
Falls: 2 (one spectacular fall into sheep poo/mud)
Cows: 2 Jaime/Angella: 0
Richard Armitage Sightings: 0
Sheep: One Bazillion

We are starving...time to round up dinner (we are constantly dreaming of food, which has been delicious so far) more later.

Angella and Jaime in Ireland.