hello from ireland! here i am in westport.  ireland is more beautiful than the photos.  enjoying good weather.  most useless item in my luggage was long sleeved sweaters which you wear instead of a blouse...more useful clothes were t-shirts with sweatshirts or light jackets worn over them. so layering clothes has worked best.

don't have much time, am using sadie's computer at the boulevard guesthouse in wesport, very hospitable people.  bye!  off to northern ireland tomorrow.

lots of american tourists in dingle and county clare.  hardly any american tourists in westport if you are looking to get a bit more off the beaten path.  irish tourists, locals, and european tourists mostly here in westport, county mayo.

great cup of tea over here.  first i hated guiness.  then i tried murphys and smithwicks.  then i couldn't go back to the weaker tasting pale beers...have developed a taste for guiness and murphys which i have decided taste a lot like coffee.  toucan is a beer which apparently is made from the old original guiness recipe.  they have it at matt malloys pub in westport but many pubs don't have it on tap.

have worn my white nike walking shoes everywhere.  since our weather was mostly sunny they have stayed fairly clean.  but there is sheep poo everywhere and i look at the ground a lot.

got stuck in a cow-jam.  instead of a traffic jam.

i love it here.  i am moving here and taking san diego weather to keep here with me.