Wordle

Just now, I came across a neat website called wordle which lets you create word/tag clouds from rss feeds, or any text. Check out the wordle for my blog.


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South-West - Truely Gorgeous

Following up on my traveling around Ireland series, this time we went to the South-West of Ireland. To read about previous road trips, check posts To The West and To North-West. The maps of our drive was as follows:

We first went to Limerick on the way to Dingle Peninsula, drove around peninsula, back to Dingle, towards Kilkee crossing river, following day to Cliffs of Moher and finally Galway and back to Dublin.

As I have said it in previous posts also, my love for Ireland just keeps growing everytime I visit anything outside Dublin :)

Some highlights of trip, if someone wanna do similar.

• Limerick was great, but it was raining so we cudn't manage to see much but still in between sun n rain patches, we managed to see the castle and church. The best part, food was way cheaper than Dublin and we enjoyed a wonderful cup of coffee and home made scones for less than 12 euros for 3 people.
• Normally, people go to Ring of Kerry. But we decided to go to Dingle Peninsula. The only thing I knew of it was the famous Dolphin called Fungie, which we off-course saw the next day.
• Dingle is just gorgeous, no words can explain it. It was not the best weather, but atleast it was not raining with some sun shining once in a while and we drove all along the peninsula, its probably one of the most beautiful drive in Ireland I have taken. Also lots of prehistoric sites to see, the landscape is out of world :) and also visited the west most point of Ireland, "The Basket Islands", which comprises of 7 islands. We went to the edge of one of the islands and it was soo soo coool. Unmissable.
• We then drove back to Dingle and passed Connor Pass, it was bit overcast by then, so we didn't stop but it looked very tempting to have a walk. But we needed to cross the river by ferry to go across and didn't wanted to take the long road route. So we had to hurry up and we drove to Tarbert and got the ferry to Woodview (see map here for more close up route)
• And drove to a small town of Kilkee.
• Following day, we had nice breakfast in Kilkee, nice sunny day, drove to Cliffs to Moher (second of the many time probably I will visit this spot).
  
• The last stop was Galway city, which was much much better than I expected. Nice, small town city like feeling. Def. not to miss.

And ah, don't worry about accommodation, there are so many B&B's and non-breakfast places, we never had to book anything, just go to one n spend the night.

I would be posting the pictures slowly on flickr, Have a look here.

Some collage shots:

Limerick n Irish Highways

Fungie, Dingle Peninsula

Drive along Dingle peninsula, Landscape

Flying High on the west most point in Ireland, The Basket Islands

Kilkee, Cliffs of Moher n Galway City

Dummies Guide to US Elections - Part 8

Its been a while since I posted on my previous series "Dummies Guide to US Elections" (Part 6 n older) and since then lot has happened, ah not really. Thou' Mrs. Clinton is out of the race, it was getting just too confusing for everyone (Americans / International community alike). So now we down to final two - the very very old man "the-white-hair-dude" and the-man-who-is-gonna-bring-change.

This is not what caught my attention, but someone else bought back the good feeling of "drama" the US elections gives to us and am totally back on track to track. And that someone else is Paris Hilton. And this is the best campaign you will ever see and it has given an entirely new dimension to the ever-so dramatic US elections. Check it out:

See more Paris Hilton videos at Funny or Die

Finally, a worthwhile 3rd candidate has arrived. Vote for Paris Hilton.



Paris Hilton quotes:
"he is oldest celebrity in the world, like super old"
"i'm just hot"
"totally ready to lead"
"dancing was sin, n beer was served in a bucket"
"I'll see you at the debate bitches"
"Vice President - Rihana"
"Paint it Pink"

This was in response to this Mc Cain ad (which is btw just awful)


And I can't even comprehend this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mopkn0lPzM8

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