The Adventures of Newquey

Our fun little weekend began on Friday night at 11pm when we boarded our night bus for a 7 hour journey to the English Coast. The bus had two drivers, a women who I think was actually crazy and a man who drove like it. By our 4am pit stop we had grudgingly dubbed our bus to be the night bus from Harry Potter. This is because our driver drove just a nuts. He whipped our large travel coach around corners and bends on the small streets and would slam on the breaks sending us falling from our seats. Let just say very little sleep happened and we were off to a great start.
We eventually arrived 2 hours ahead of schedule and they dropped us off at 6 am to a dessert and closed down town. SO we set off down the main street, littered with cans and garbage you could tell that people had just headed home from the bars a few hours ago. We walked to coast and up a hill where we watched the sunrise for the hour until the Costa Coffee shop we spotted opened. The views over the water were amazing and were completely worth the lack of sleep and cold temperature.

When the coffee shop open up we set up camp for a couple of hours until everything started to open. We warmed up with some coffee, brushed our teeth and in Josh's case washed our hair in the bathroom sink. We then walked up to a local cafe for some much needed breakfast and then headed for our hostel to check in. We spend the late morning laying on the beach. We power napped, people watched, and enjoyed the water (it was freezing so more enjoyed from a far). Then after crabbing a pasty for lunch (they were everywhere) we changed and headed out exploring. We probably spent a good 3 hours exploring the beaches at low tide, walking the coast and peninsula, and chilling by the harbor.















































We ended up going to dinner and spending the night at an Australian pub named Walkabout that was right on the water. It was filled with people dressed up for various bar crawls and ended up having a sweet live band.
Day two of trip was mainly spent on the beach trying to soak up some sun before heading back to the city. However, I hit a major snag when we went to catch our bus home. In a rush the week before, I had bought a return ticket for the day before and not on Sunday. The driver told me that I didn't have a ticket for the bus and that the bus was full. He then informed me that the bus later that night was also full and that the station office was closed and that I would have to order a ticket for a Monday morning ticket online. Well, standing there I'm thinking how I don't want to stay the night in Newquey by myself and that if I took a bus the next day I would be late to my mandatory classes. So I was pretty much freaking out at this point. Thankfully, and I mean thankfully, like I was being looked down on, there ended up being not only a spare seat on the bus but a paid for seat so I was allowed on free of cost. Let just say, even though the bus ride home was just as jerky and full of whiplash turns, I didn't mind in the slightest. Overall a great weekend on coast. Hopefully there will be many more to come!