The good and the bad

Yesterday I had the opportunity to do something that I've been waiting a long time to do; drink a glass of Kilkenny beer in Kilkenny. Although it was only 12pm and I didn't feel like a beer, I took one for the team and downed it. We didn't have much of a chance to look around kilkenny apart from that but the lack of excitement in kilkenny was forgotten as soon as we arrived in Waterford. Our arrival in Waterford coincided with the biggest street party that happens in the city every 5 years. Huge sailing ships from all over Europe meet in Waterford and sail around Europe to promote sailing or something like that and I can honestly say I've never seen soo many people on the streets in my life. It was a summer Thursday night and the sun doesn't set until almost 10pm. Much like in Bologna the streets are crowded with people of all ages who were waiting for the darkness to arrive so that Waterford could put on one of the best fireworks displays I've ever seen. I have some photos of the amount of people but they don't show the atmosphere of thousands of Irish drinking beer and listening to live bands on a warm summers night down by the river in festival season.

Yesterday wasn't such a good day as I woke up sick :(
Sure enough sitting on a bus for hours a day with 50 other people means that when one gets sick, purrs are soon to follow and about a third of the bus has the flu. Apart from that just nothing went my way yesterday, right up until bedtime when all I wanted was a good night sleep but my bed was the most uncomfortable thing I'd ever laid eyes on so much so that I ended up sleeping on the floor feeling sick. Not a high point of the trip. The only saving grace for the hotel last night was that it played host to a Welsh 'formal/prom' which the lobby proved to be an excellent viewing point for. It was the most amazing collection of females I'd ever seen and I'm certain that I went to the wrong school.

Today I'm still feeling like shite (as the English would say) but stocked up on meds yesterday to keep me going and were just going to Bath today to see the Roman baths and then a stop at Stonehenge. Then we arrive in London and haven't booked accommodation yet and then it's off to Amsterdam probably Tuesday (flights $65aud - cheaper than a taxi from the city to home in Adelaide).