County Clare

Day 37 (Day 7) - on Saturday (July 3rd) mom and i got on a bus to explore some family history.

we went to Ennis - in County Clare - which is about 20 min from Tulla.


Tulla is where the Donnellans are from


(my mother's mother's family)

Ennis was a really cute little town.


we started at the tourist office, grabbed a map and walked around the 'suggested walk' to see the highlights of the town.


it only took about an hour.


we saw some neat things.

mom was hoping to stop in the library to look up family records, but they were closed,

so we'll have to do research on the internet.

there were lots of neat statues like this one all over the town->

Fun Fact: in 2005, Ennis won the Irish Tidy Towns Competition. there were plaques and statues commemorating this feat all over the town - it was adorable


after we saw all of the highlights, we walked around the little shops and picked up a few souvenirs.


there was a Street Festival going on in the town that day (i love this country!)





weird fact: i had Another Brick in the Wall randomly stuck in my head all day...


and when we walked up, this band started playing that song. it was pretty frikin cool.


gotta love an Irish boy with a guitar lol





and of course, we had to take a picture of this.


for those that don't know, my brother (hey, Andrew!) goes by the name 'Quin'


so my mother and i were amused by these signs (and may have ran through traffic to take this picture)




we had a good day in Ennis, then hopped a bus back to Galway. we had dinner, a few pints, then packed our bags for SPAIN!