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When Sean departed this morning my plans for the rest of the trip ended. I was free to go or do whatever I wanted. No reservations anywhere, no tickets booked. But where to?

My first thought was simply to head to London early, but that would mean something like 10 days in that really expensive city. Dublin isn’t the cheapest place either, so I started looking at adding other cities to my list.

I had originally wanted to include Iceland in my travels, but then the recession caused there government to collapse, and I thought better of it. They’ve stabilized a lot since I was doing my planning, but the prices for flights is outrageous! Each leg of a trip to or from the UK or Ireland to Reykjavik is over $2000! After taxes I was looking at something like $5000 for a round trip, despite its relative proximity. So that was a no go.

I had gotten recommendations for other cities around Ireland, so in the end I decided a $20 bus ride to one of those places was my best bet. My original plan was to make a loop from Galway to Limerick to Cork and then back to Dublin, but once I got to Galway today, I liked it so much that I’ve decided to stay here for a few days at least, and see what happens from there.