Bank Holidays

One of the great things about living in Ireland is the countless number of bank holidays they have. Sometimes these days fall on real days of celebration, such as Christmas or New Years Day or the greatest holiday of them all, St. Patrick's Day. But other times they fall on a random Monday, which gives the Irish more than a decent excuse to drown themselves in pints on Sunday morning, afternoon, and the entire evening. For us, it gives a great chance to do some travelling, so we're going to make our second trip to the west of Ireland next weekend, to Killarney, down in the southwest. We're going to return to hostel life (hostile life?) for 3 days and do a tour of the Ring of Kerry, ride bikes around Killarney National Park, and just maybe see what's so great about those Sundays before a bank holiday. :-)