While my parents were in Málaga, we took a day trip to Gibraltar. Gibraltar is a territory of the UK but it is at the southernmost tip of Spain and it is very close to Morocco. It was cool because they spoke a mix of Spanish and English because it is an English territory but it is so closely connected with Spain. We took a bus trip that had the option to just ride the bus to get to Gibraltar or to take a tour and after hearing recommendations from a friend, we chose to just take the bus there and find our own tour once we got there. The bus trip took far longer than it should have because we had to stop frequently in different towns to pick up more people but it got us there so we couldn't complain. Once we arrived in Gibraltar we quickly grabbed some lunch then walked towards the mountain where we caught a taxi guided tour to the top. Basically in Gibraltar there are a bunch of taxi services that bring people on a tour of the mountain for a set price. Our tour took us to the Pillar of Hercules, which was under construction but had a good view of Africa, the caves, a lookout that is famous for having the most tame of the famous gibraltar monkeys, and an old Muslim castle. The monkeys are probably one of the most famous things about the rock of Gibraltar and when one of my friends went his tour guide had a monkey sit on his shoulders. It looked awesome so I requested for our guide to help me get a monkey on my shoulders as well. He lured a very small cute one onto my shoulders but then a larger one jumped on instead! I didn't know how to get it to get off of me so I just stood there for a few minutes before my tour guide told me to just walk and it would jump off. He told me that I wasn't supposed to touch the monkey but that it could touch me but as I started walking it started to wobble so I put my hand up to kind of steady it, and it grabbed onto my arm in order to jump off. It was really large and very strong so it actually left a scratch and a pretty nasty bruise when it grabbed on but honestly it was completely worth it!

View of Spain

View of Morocco

Inside the caves.

A nice small monkey!

*Unaware that he sees the larger monkey and is about to jump off*

Then there was a large monkey on my back. Very casual.

Very ready for him to be off of my back.

A road that goes in the middle of an airplane runway.

While we were in Dublin, my family took a bus tour to the Cliffs of Moher. They're one of the top things to do in Ireland and they did not disappoint. The cliffs were around 4 hours away so it made for a lot of time on the bus, though we stopped a few times, including at some "mini cliffs" which were also very pretty. The entire bus ride was pretty honestly, there were a lot of cool views along the way. The actual Cliffs of Moher were incredible, though they were very cold and windy. By the tower at the highest point, it was so windy it was difficult to even walk forward. Despite the cold and the wind the Cliffs were definitely worth seeing! There's really not a lot else to say about them, but I think the pictures will speak for themselves.

The "mini cliffs"

Trying to take a selfie with the wind at the mini cliffs (it was far worse at the actual Cliffs of Moher.

The Cliffs of Moher

If I look cold and miserable its because I was lol

Some good advice.

Stopped by a  castle on the way home

Hey y'all! So I got very behind on blog posts during my last month studying abroad because it was honestly so busy but I am back in the states now and finally have a bit of time to get all caught up on my posts from my last month of travels! In the beginning of March I met my parents in Dublin for a long weekend. We went to Trinity College where we saw the famous library and the Book of Kells. We went to the Dublin Castle which is really not very old but still cool. We also went to Christ Church and St. Patrick's Cathedral. We just did self guided tours for everything and it was all pretty self-explanatory. Then we went to the Guinness Brewery which was like 7 stories high and more like a museum about Guinness but cool nonetheless. We also toured Kilmainham Gaol which is the old jail which has major connections to the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland which sparked the beginnings of their revolution. The jail was really cool but it was also really sad because it has a really rough history. It was really rainy and cold when we were there (and I was honestly not prepared) but it was a cool city overall.

Trinity College

Trinity College Library

Dublin Castle

Dublin Castle

If you look closely, you can see holes in the statue's feet. Its pretty powerful.

Christ Church

Christ Church

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St. Patrick's Cathedral

Very very old tombstone

Guinness Brewery

Sky bar at the top of the Guinness brewery

Used my free drink coupon for a Fanta.

I was so happy to finally have a plain chocolate chip cookie (I had trouble finding them in Spain).

Kilmainham Gaol