Two months (and one day) after we returned home, I wanted to write down some final reflections of our trip. I’m delayed, yes. But I’m also doing this for myself, so being on time matters less. This will be question-and-answer style—the questions that I asked Daddy as we mused over…
Well, I wasn’t going to post tonight, which is why I didn’t have my camera, which is why you’ll forgive me these pictures. ‘What’s that?’ ‘I don’t know,’ I answered Daddy, staring into the night sky, forgetting whatever our topic of conversation was. ‘It looks likes flames.’ ‘Yeah, it does,…
Tags: cities > Dublin
Wicklow is called the Garden of Ireland. By colonists, who usurped the land from its Irish inhabitants and refused to give it back for centuries, or ever. (The Irish make light of their subjugated past now, but even this good-naturedness helps me to sympathise with fomenting dissent. There’s this quintessentially…
Tags: scenery > villages Read More
On our way from Kinsale to Wicklow today, we stopped at the Rock of Cashel. The Rock is a mass of stone piled systematically atop a hill in order to form a habitation. It was a castle where kings lived until the thirteenth century or so, when it was repurposed…
Tags: scenery
O, colourful Kinsale. I started this post yesterday, but stopped when I realised that no post about Kinsale could be complete without dozens of pictures of colour-saturated stucco. I probably should have taken pictures of more monuments and landmarks, but no matter. Enjoy. (Maybe that gallery worked? I blame PHP…
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Today I almost killed Daddy. Not intentionally, mind you! And I did very seriously consider alternatives in order to guarantee his safety. It all started innocently enough. We breakfasted at our usual hour. We drove into town. We rented bikes. We headed to Reen Pier at Ross Castle. We boarded…
Tags: adventures > scenery
Somehow I was imagining that the Ring of Kerry was some sort of tourist attraction in itself, instead of just a way to drive around the Iveragh Peninsula. But so it is, another drive. A beautiful drive, at that. This is what you think of when you think of Ireland. …
Tags: Juan Diego > scenery
We’re trying to find a day that’s neither windy nor promises to rain in the afternoon. In the mean time, we have other activities that aren’t so weather-dependent, including more driving about—including, as I mentioned yesterday, down the Dingle peninsula. Let me attempt to convey it with pictures and panoramas. …
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Today we drove south, through The Burren again and past it, around and down towards Killarney. And yes, I keep having Toora Loora Loora stuck in my head. We said goodbye to our lovely hosts Anne and John in Galway and took the scenic route so we could take more silly…
Tags: cities > Juan Diego
After two driving days, we took ourselves on a walking tour of Galway. I won’t post too many pictures today lest I repeat myself. I wish that I could post something more useful, too, like what it’s like to drive in Ireland (awesome, but impossible to depict without videos), but…
Tags: cities > Galway > sláinte
Perhaps plucky is a better term for Juan Diego, and I was a bit harsh. But no matter. My judgement stands. Today we took a trip up the Connamara coast, to catch what we could of this side of the Wild Atlantic. Our destination was a six-mile loop called Sky…
Tags: Juan Diego > scenery
Today we headed south to the Cliffs of Moher. I was honestly more excited for the Burren, which said something silly like it was Europe’s most interesting scenery. I mean, Europe’s fine and all, but I totally agree. I could hike this place for days—and maybe I will, someday. Understandably,…
Tags: Juan Diego > pubs > scenery > sláinte
Today we wandered around Galway some more. It was an easy task. This will be a post mostly in pictures, since I’d like to rest up before our drive up Connemara tomorrow. Anticipate more pictures. In a weird way, Salthill sort of reminds me of the colourful Victorian houses around…
Tags: cities > Galway > pubs > sláinte
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