I ate my fair share of ploughman's lunches (what is the deal with pickled onions?) and pub food during my last visit to Ireland and when the weather started to turn against us out on the end of the...
Blog posts from Ireland
Gap of Dunloe waterfalls
We had a very difficult time finding a good resource for waterfalls in Ireland before we left on this trip. Even when we asked locals, the most common answer was "Oh, how about the Torc waterfall?"...
Gap of Dunloe
Eric called this one of the top three most scenic drives we've done. Considering Chapman's Peak in South Africa and Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park are both on that list, that's...
Gleninchiquin Falls and the Uragh Stone Circle
After driving through Killarney National Park we took a detour down to the Beara Peninsula to see Gleninchiquin Falls. I had emailed the private park a few days before we left but no one ever got...
Killarney National Park
After our stops at Muckross House and the Torc waterfall, the weather improved slightly as we meandered through Killarney National Park. The N71 took us past many small lakes and beautiful...
Muckross House and Torc Waterfall
Our first stop on the second day after a hearty breakfast at our B&B on our way through Killarney National Park was the Muckross House. We decided not to do the house tour but instead walked...
Back from Ireland
Most of the day was seemingly spent on a plane of one sort or another. As we took off we had a quick view of the Irish coast, then it was clouds and ocean for several thousand miles. In flight we...
our bags are packed
It seems that someone has decided to play a practical joke on us and give us Ireland-weather before we've actually left. It's been raining and in the mid-50s here for the last two days, so we should...
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