Agnes Water

Probably should have mentioned in the last blog that we were heading to Agnes Water which was a nice nine and a half hour bus journey. So at half 9 we arrived in Agnes Water and were greeted off the bus by various hostel workers. They all wanted us to stay with them but we'd researched which were the best so went with a nice Irish girl to a hostel called Cool Bananas. She took us in the back of her beaten up van a few minutes down the road to a lovely hostel where we checked in and dumped our bags. I changed out of my pyjamas (the bus was cold so pyjamas seemed sensible) and we got a lift down to the supermarket and post office from the nice Irish girl. We bought food for breakfast and lunch in the supermarket before munching on a pear on our walk back to the hostel. We ate bread and peanut butter as a late breakfast before taking advantage of a washing machine and washing most of our clothes. This meant we had to wait for the washing to finish so we sat on a comfy sofa in a little outdoor courtyard and caught up with social media and discovered One Direction have split up. 

There weren't any dryers but it was a lovely sunny day so we hung our clothes out to dry on the washing line and headed to the beach. We were going to surf but the surf is better in the morning and it was now around 2pm. Instead we had a picnic of ham and spicy mayo sandwiches (being careful of the sand) and enjoyed the tranquility of the almost empty beach. We played some beach football with a very tiny ball and paddled in the sea until it started to get a little chilly. 

Back at the hostel (the beach was only a 10 minute walk away) we showered and took in our lovely clean dry clothes before heading down to the outdoor seating area by the kitchen to wait for our cooked meal. You could sign up for a meal here. A little old Aussie guy wearing a beret comes along and serves you up some grub. We were a little disappointed though as it seemed like it was a frozen pack of chicken schnitzels with frozen veg, mashed potato, a piece of sweet potato and some runny gravy which lacked an awful lot of taste. This cost us $7 each and we realised we could have made something way better ourselves for less than that. However, the little man also made crepes after for an extra $4. We decided to share one (there wasn't seconds so Matt was obviously still hungry) and we were very happily surprised. After the mediocre main course I wasn't expecting much so when we were given a huge crepe filled with loads of vanilla ice cream, fresh strawberries and bananas, tinned apple pieces topped with maple syrup, chocolate sauce and caramel sauce and finished with a sprinkling of cinnamon my face lit up. I'm glad we shared one as it was huge! 

After a cup of tea (free at the hostel) Matt went to Skype his family and I fell asleep on a sofa waiting for my phone to update. I decided to go to bed and told Matt he could wake me if he finished skyping early as there was a beach party at the beach tonight. However, by the time Matt finished it was a little too late and I was far too sleepy so we decided against the beach party and just had a good night sleep instead.