This weekend, I returned to Galway with the International Association of Trinity College. Surely you will tell me that I've been to Galway September ... it's true, but this time nothing to do with the other. We never stayed in Galway for visiting, we went further south. We left on Friday night, we spent our day on Saturday on Inis Mor, the largest of the Aran Islands. On Sunday, we went to see the Cliffs of Moher, and on the way back to Dublin, we stopped at Bunratty Castle.
Friday evening, landing at 50 in a pub ...
Saturday, after a short night's sleep, departure by boat to the Aran Islands. Can you see the snow covering mountains in the distance? 
During the trip, a helicopter rescue at sea of Ireland made a rescue exercise, while continuing to move forward, the helicopter came within 5 meters of the boat, and hélitroyé has a lifeguard on board, in short, a nice little animation in the morning. 
After an hour's boat ride, we arrived on Inish Mor Inish Mor having about 12 km and remained still fairly typical, if we forget the one or two stores at the port, the rest of the island looks like the little corner of Ireland lost with traditional houses, meadows, and stone walls. Speaking of walls, on the island, there's an impressive amount, according to history, the original inhabitants have dug grooves in the rocks to dry the algae in the limestone to create the earth (in the aim to create spaces for cultivation), the stones removed before well be called somewhere, then they would have built walls around, protecting the new land of wind (which is pretty strong on the island in general). On the island we rented bikes to be quietly balled our drop point is an old fort on top of cliffs:
traditional house with thatched roof. 
Up there, the remains of the fort, and all around the cliffs (the highest reaching about 80 meters high). With that, I will let you enjoy the height of the wave that washes up on the cliff on the following photo: 
On the next picture, a aerial view of the fort where there was: 
On Sunday we went to the Cliffs of Moher (two hours drive south of Galway), the following pictures were taken in the bus during the Journey 
We here reached the cliffs, cliffs that reach over 200 meters high and extending over several kilometers:
On the next photo, the cliffs, one could perceive the far the Aran Islands: 
having more time to return to Galway, we went through Bunratty (yet a little further south) where we stopped to visit the castle :
I loved this piece, sorted library, office, admiring the ceiling a bit: 
To conclude, let's talk about weather, overall we will not complain, for a trip on the west coast, it was not much more, only half an hour on the island of Aran ( enough to be tempered, and all that coupled with the perpetual wind, on my bike, it reminded me a lot the trip in Connemara ...)
Enough blabber, promise kept, that the Irish sun ;-)
PS: Do not look for photos of the city of Galway, we do not have time to visit the city (apart from the pubs ...)
