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 MoreRock me, Mama
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: sceneryMind the Gap
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 > sceneryI Fell into a Burning Ring of Kerry
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 > sceneryA Tingle for Your Dingle
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. …
Tags: Juan Diego > sceneryConnemara Coast
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 > sceneryJuan Diego
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
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