Till a couple weeks ago the castle sands were closed, so yesterday we decided to take advantage of the ever lengthening daylight hours and do a little exploring. If you can't tell, the rocks aren't actually black, they're covered in a black, plant like substance, something between seaweed and moss. Walking on this black stuff turned out to be very slippery, and of course the venture culminated in my falling into a tide pool. Still worth it, I think.
And after this, we had an even bigger adventure, which unfortunately I have no photographic proof of... I DROVE A CAR. Not only on the wrong side of the road, oh no, that wasn't that difficult, but manually. Now, I should preface this by saying, I learned to drive on an automatic, every car I've ever driven in my life has been automatic, I've never even sat in the driver's seat of a manual car in my life. So my first time driving manually was on the wrong side of the road, in my friend's cramped little British car, down a tiny country motorway... and, well, let's just say it amounted to a whole lot of dirty looks from other drivers, a lesser amount of stalling and a little bit of the car rolling backwards on its own. Again, still worth it, I think. If there is ever a time to do stupid things like climb on unsafe rocks and drive illegally, its when you're living abroad.
