Ireland, Spain & Portugal on a Big(ger) Budget

I thought I would do a little picture summary of the six weeks I spent with my mum in Ireland, Spain and Portugal before my solo voyage comes into the picture.

So basically I came to Europe in the first place because I had half a year before university started, I had three jobs putting money into my v poor bank account, and a wedding in Ireland came up. So Mum & I went over to Ireland for this wedding, spent three weeks, one of them tripping around the countryside, before heading to mainland Europe for some post-family fun. The following three weeks were spent variously in Lisbon, Coimbra, Porto in Portugal & Salamanca, Granada, Madrid in Spain. And a lovely six weeks all this was, plus we could afford the odd drink and we take photos of each other as opposed to the awkward self-takes my camera will have to endure for the next three months. These are some photographic tidbits from those six weeks with my Mum.


Where would one be without guinness in snugs?


Pub mid-afternoon in Ballybeg, the Gaeltacht (Irish speaking part of Ireland)


Grumpy horse that doesn't like english speaking foreigners in the Gaeltacht


Staying at a relative's house in County Galway


Annual Maam Cross Connemarra Pony Fair,for lovers of toothless farmers and horse shit


Tractor jam


Nannageddon


Contemplating tea, County Kerry


Mosteiro dos Jerónimos (UNESCO world heritage listed monastery), Lisboa, Portugal


Student resistance, Coimbra, Portugal


Fine Dining in Porto, Portugal


Chilling in church, Salamanca, Spain


The magnificent Palacio Nazaries in the Alhambra, Granada, Spain


The Albaicín, Granada, Spain


Space age, Madrid, Spain