Thee Solo adventures to the irish towns I

Exactly the same title as the email I mass-mailed to friends... Hold on, as this will be a much longer one for those interested about my holiday to Ireland.

A NIGHTMARE BEGINNING

A disastrous start to my first "solo" travelling, I was almost freaking out. Let's exclude coming to London for working holiday alone - that's not really travelling, is it!! Here's what happened... I decided to book an overnight coach to Dublin where I will start my tour at 0800am as it will probably save a night accomodation and a good experience to get there on the ferry. The bus journey was supposed to be 12 hours, I could sleep in there, somehow I got bus-sick on the way because the driver was making too many turns, slowed down then sped up... It was awful, imgaine I took 5 travel-calm pills onboard.

I was drifting in and out of sleep, when the driver finally stopped at a Park & Ride station. He stood up in the centre of the front, and announced,"Sorry guys, but we are going to miss the ferry." That's it! It was 1230am, our scheduled ferry was at 0100am. He couldn't make it in time - BUMMER!! Everyone was in shock, some thought it was a joke, the others just started panicking, like me!! Of course, I have a tour next morning and now the next ferry is 0900am - FUCK, but yes I'm going to miss my tour! I was stressed out, I couldn't possibly sleep now... I needed to talk to someone. So I called my bf in the middle of the night, should be 0130am in Germany. I was almost on tears... :( Some people are lucky to be not on my speed-dial ;)

After some minutes of settling in and calming down, I decided to speak to the driver. He advised me to hook up with the tour (which is going to be somewhere on the road) when I arrived in Dublin... I figured that would be a better idea than missing out the whole thing, which I paid! The following morning before 0800am, I rang up the hostel notifying of my late arrival, the bus was supposed to pick me up there, damned!

On-board the ferry, I was sea-sick - crap!! This is really a lousy start, for 2 hours on the ferry, I kept walking rounds and then I went to the deck where I felt less stuffy. I was trying to stay positive,"It'll be OK when I get to Dublin..." I was very displeased with the bus service which provided no help to the affected passengers - we're fucking 6 hours late!!

Later on, I realized I need to take another 4 hours bus journey to Galway where the tour group will stay for the night. I missed the first day totally :( Strange, but I began to believe everything will be running smoothly after I get to Galway, and it did - I'm so glad. After 22 hours of travelling on bus, FINALLY... The first thing I did when I checked into the hostel - shower!!!

**to be continued***