The Gáisce Hike!!

This weekend a group of fourteen Transition and Fifth Year students took a bus down to Wicklow in order to complete our Gáisce Hike. I had expected the hostel to be minimal and was very surprised at how nice the building and staff turned out to be. Our room was lovely and even had an upstairs! We set off at around four in the afternoon and began our hike of a section of the Wicklow Way. I didn't find it as difficult as people from previous years had made it out to be and thouroghly enjoyed every minute of it. We ended up finishing the hike earlier than expected and our guide complemented us on this, saying that we were one of the fastest groups he had every taken. When we arrived back at the hostel we went down to the self cateering kitchen and cooked our own dinners. I really liked this because it gave us more freedom and we got to eat whatever we prefered. We spent the rest of the evening watching a movie in the TV room and then went to bed thoroughly exausted! The next day we didn't have a lot of hiking left to do since we had completed the majority of the hike the day before. Because of this, we had some spare time in which we went orinteering, did archery and played some team games! When I arrived back home I was extemeley tired and slept really well that night.