Day 6
Beautiful day today!!! We slept in till 9:40 and then enjoyed a wonderful continental breakfast consisting of fresh fruit, granola, coffee, and coco puffs.
We biked to Slane village today with the intention of visiting Slane castle. The views along were absolutely amazing! We saw sheep and their babies grazing in fields along the way, and tons of old stone houses, all very cool. My butt is so sore from the biking because my seat was up way too high and I couldn't lower it, but i do believe that I will survive.
In Slane we went to a little bistro for lunch and had the most amazing panini in the world (exaggeration)! It had avocado, pickled cucumbers, brie, lettuce, and tomato. We also got a hot chocolate that, for some reason, was lovely (everyone here say lovely so i decided to pick it up).
A little past Slane was the Hill of Slane where there was an old college and church dating from around the 1500s. It was here that Saint Patrick lit the paschal fire on Easter in defiance of a pagan holiday. We took a ton of pictures of the old stone buildings here because it was just so dang cool!
Our long bike ride home was rather uneventful, except for us panting to make it up the hills and then enjoying the downhills at the end. Although, we did see some cute baby sheep at the end.
Well, now we are back at the Newgrange Lodge and I'm starving! We will write more later! Tomorrow we head back to Dublin for one night and then... St. Patrick's day!!!
Bye everybody!
Nic
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