Travel Stories
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…
Day Five – Glendalough
Glendalough Today ended our rainless streak in Ireland. Not easily daunted, went down and tucked the rear view mirrors in, maneuvered past the very narrow stone archway where are car was parked and headed south to Glendalough. Glendalough is an…
Day Four – Dublin
Coffee Late Start today. Very late breakfast. Coffee in Ireland seems to be almost universally good. Often regular coffee is in the form of an Americano and even if it is just brewed, it is good. And strong. Just don’t…
Ireland Trip Day Three
We rose determined to do more power sightseeing today. We toured Saint Patrick’s cathedral in the morning. The site had a church on it since St. Patrick’s time around 600 AD and this spectacular cathedral was built in the 1100’s….
Day Two – First Day in Dublin
Dragged out of bed slowly today. Managed coffee, but really didn’t get moving until noon. We started our walking tour and had lunch at an uninspired vegetarian Indian restaurant called Govindas. Aaron and Linda had a more favorable opinion than…