Day four- What we did on our way to stay at Cong

Hi all,
Well this was Alison's idea - cause she had done it on her last trip- a relaxing and revitalising seaweed bath. No photos of me in it but took a shot before I got in. You have individual rooms, with a shower which is also a steam room. Shower and steam then get in the bath. You have 50 minutes. Looks like dirty tea water with seaweed- but it was great. Keep in mind it was raining raining raining outside and we did this and all left with wet hair.

Seaweed bath- looks suspect but was awesome.

Ashford Castle near Cong. This is an expensive hotel roughly €495 per night- and this doesn't include breakfast. This is also the location for the the filming of the John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara's movie the Quiet Man. (This movie became a theme whilst there- Mark made us watch it) In the movie John and Maureen don't have the best relationship - and the quote of the movie according to Mark was 'Here is a stick to beat your lovely lady'. Watch it to understand the dated values and the rain scene where Johns white shirt is so see through it looks like plastic so that you can see his muscles.

Alison and I outside the expensive castle- very blowy as you can tell by our hair.,

Freddy in the background, Kyra in the hat and Rachel beside her, Alison's arm- this is us watching the quiet man- we were not quiet and commented through out the movie- Mark put the subtitles on so he could still follow the movie. Very detailed subtitles like - Bar is quiet.

Next morning at the hostel we had a fry up breakfast- Alison was one of the chefs. Renee is putting food in her mouth and that is Simon with the baked beans he has cooked.



Our breakfast- looks great, the knife is pointing to black pudding- which tasted like a bland sausage. We all ate it and ignored the pigs blood concept of the food.



So that was our afternoon in Cong followed by our morning.
Miss you from here
Karen  & Alison