Wow. Our last day in Ireland. Hard to believe that over two weeks have flown by already. Over some feeble objections from the womenfolk, Aaron lobbied for one more castle stop. Trim Castle in the town of (you guessed it)…
Sadly we are winding down the trip. One of the required tourist stops is to spend a night in a castle, so we are heading to Kilronan Castle tonight one the way back to Dublin. It is a lot of…
Martina, the B and B proprietor is pleasant, but not very talkative. Hospitality seems to be more necessity than passion. However, the coffee was great and the full Irish breakfast was good. The objective today is The Burren. It is…
We did our now traditional late start again today. Not a bad tradition, really. Stella is not a morning person, so she was happy to make breakfast around 9. This morning it is potato (that stereotype of Ireland is accurate)…
Another fabulous sunny day. After a tasty breakfast of pancakes and sausages (nice to have a break from the standard full Irish breakfast), We are off to conquer Mount Brandon. It is reportedly an easy walk-up mountain and is the…
Stella made a lovely (pronounced loov-lee) breakfast of scrambled eggs and smoked salmon with bacon. We are a bit road weary, but decided to follow Stella’s advice again and take an archeology tour of the peninsula. It’s raining today. Only…
Rain Our hostess Edel’s version of full Irish breakfast added homemade German marmalade and subtracted the pudding. Fine with me. Some of us thought the marmalade was too bitter, I think it was the same person that was fine with…
On a more positive note, I will digress to describe the full irish breakfast provided at many bed and breakfasts. It starts with yogurt, fruit and cereal, then proceeds to eggs, bangers (sausages), rashers (like canadian bacon), white and black…
Sunshine We started the day with a full Irish Breakfast. I will take the time to describe what that means in the next post. Our B and B was only 15 Kilometers from the Jameson distillery. We got to the…
Rain Out of bed early to get out of town before some big “mini-marathon” race started right outside our rooms. We won’t miss the Fitzwilliam Guest House. Rooms were fine, but the heat came on every night, so we had…
Day Fifteen and Sixteen – Trim Castle and Dublin
Wow. Our last day in Ireland. Hard to believe that over two weeks have flown by already. Over some feeble objections from the womenfolk, Aaron lobbied for one more castle stop. Trim Castle in the town of (you guessed it)…
Day Fourteen – Kilronan Castle
Sadly we are winding down the trip. One of the required tourist stops is to spend a night in a castle, so we are heading to Kilronan Castle tonight one the way back to Dublin. It is a lot of…
Day Thirteen – The Burren
Martina, the B and B proprietor is pleasant, but not very talkative. Hospitality seems to be more necessity than passion. However, the coffee was great and the full Irish breakfast was good. The objective today is The Burren. It is…
Day Twelve- Cliffs of Moher and Doolin
We did our now traditional late start again today. Not a bad tradition, really. Stella is not a morning person, so she was happy to make breakfast around 9. This morning it is potato (that stereotype of Ireland is accurate)…
Day Eleven – Mount Brandon
Another fabulous sunny day. After a tasty breakfast of pancakes and sausages (nice to have a break from the standard full Irish breakfast), We are off to conquer Mount Brandon. It is reportedly an easy walk-up mountain and is the…
Day Ten – Dingle Town
Stella made a lovely (pronounced loov-lee) breakfast of scrambled eggs and smoked salmon with bacon. We are a bit road weary, but decided to follow Stella’s advice again and take an archeology tour of the peninsula. It’s raining today. Only…
Day Eight – Killarney
Rain Our hostess Edel’s version of full Irish breakfast added homemade German marmalade and subtracted the pudding. Fine with me. Some of us thought the marmalade was too bitter, I think it was the same person that was fine with…
Full Irish Breakfast
On a more positive note, I will digress to describe the full irish breakfast provided at many bed and breakfasts. It starts with yogurt, fruit and cereal, then proceeds to eggs, bangers (sausages), rashers (like canadian bacon), white and black…
Day Seven- Jameson
Sunshine We started the day with a full Irish Breakfast. I will take the time to describe what that means in the next post. Our B and B was only 15 Kilometers from the Jameson distillery. We got to the…
Day Six – Kilkenny and Cashel
Rain Out of bed early to get out of town before some big “mini-marathon” race started right outside our rooms. We won’t miss the Fitzwilliam Guest House. Rooms were fine, but the heat came on every night, so we had…