Y'know, the more I plan for this trip to Ireland, the more I like being able to make my own itinerary. It's nice to look ahead, see that the accomodations for one place are pretty awful (and pricey as hell) and that it's generally a tourist trap, and decide to just skip the sucker altogether except for an hour or two of walking tour (*coughcoughWATERFORDcough*). Curse that glass factory... and they buried a church from 1170 below a shopping mall (*&@!#*$@ *@#$&**$#@!!!!!!!!!!!). Talk about historical travesties!!! Good god, can you get any worse?!

Anyway. The route planning is going well, I've already figured out what I'm doing for the first 4 days and where I'm staying (well, as soon as the cheap, friendly, centrally-located B&B in Dingle Town gets back to me). I just wish the Bus Eireann site was up. I'm working out rail transfers now, but it's tricky to know when you'll get into a smaller town with a bus connection with the info in the travel books (4 buses per day this way... but when?? it's a mystery!). And considering that I'll be in mainly small towns at the beginning (Dingle Town, Kinsale) this is fairly important. Ah well. Once I hash it all out, it's going up here so I have a reference in case I lose my itinerary and info in Ireland (also so you guys can see where I am and maybe even send a letter? ;) nah, I'm kidding. email is absolutely fine, and after all, it won't get lost in the international mail). Hooray for internet cafes. :)