Trapped in Ireland!!!

The next morning we woke up and got straight to the train station. The next bus to Dublin turned out to be in 5 minutes, but it was so hard to find out where to get tickets, or where to wait as there were no staff. After asking a few people we were pointed in the right direction and got our bus. Driving out of Kilkenny was good as I got to see a lot more of the town than when we were driving in. It looked like a real sports town, there were banners and flags everywhere all saying "good luck Kilkenny boys" and things like that. Seemed to have a good spirit.

Once we got back to Dublin we realised there was no night bus to Edinburgh!! We thought there might still be a later one though so rushed to the Dublin bus station only to be told tickets from Dublin to Edinburgh need to be booked 3 days in advance. I just stared at the guy and probably could have cried. After he saw the look on my face he mentioned the only thing we could do was catch a bus back to Belfast and hope we could get one from there. At this point we just wanted to get out of Ireland!! But at the same time were excited at the thought of heading back to Belfast. While waiting for our bus to Belfast we looked online and realised the only buses would be the next morning and we would need to stay in Belfast a night. That didnt worry us too much as Belfast was our fave spot. We knew where everything was and it kind of felt like home to us.

We got to Belfast around 6.30pm and asked about tickets to Edinburgh, he said the ticket office was closed but was open at 9 in the morning. So we decided to just head back to Paddys Palace, the hostel we had stayed at last time and try to get a room and maybe book our tickets online.

When we were walking to the hostel we laughed how it would be good to see Troy again, the bus driver from our Giants Causeway tour. He was probably one of the funniest guys in ireland we had met. Then, as we were at the corner of the hostel, we was driving out!! He stopped the car just into the road and was looking at me and Laura as if he recognised us, then he pointed and started waving. We ran over to his car and said hello. I told him we had been all around Ireland and his trip was still our favorite!! He was so happy, and we were so suprised he remembered us!! We had done the tour nearly 2 weeks earlier, and he runs tours every day with 50 people or so. It was nice that he remembered who we were and where we were going etc.

When we got to the hostel they told us they had a room, and gave us a twin room for 20 pound. I asked if it was 20 each and she was like, no in total!!! This is why we love Belfast. They knew we had been here the week before and were looking after us :) It was so nice to get some help. They also offered to print bus tickets for us as well. Now we could relax before heading to Scotty. We even got to go back to spuds, our favorite food spot for dinner!! We LOVE Belfast!!!

Now we are having a later night, so that we will sleep on the bus tomorrow. Its an 8 hour trip from here to Scotty and we are starting to get sore backs from all the buses and carrying luggage. It will be so nice to spend a few nights in one place again. Im really excited for Scotland, and cant believe how quickly the trip is going now. Before we know it we will be home!!!