Visit These International Sites: West Cork, Ireland
October 6, 2019. Trip Oversight Q: “Do ya know da one difference between an Irishman and a Scottsman?” A: “Only one of them can swim.” -A Dubliner explaining to us how much the Irish and Scottish dislike the English (the Irish swam across the Irish Sea to escape England) One extra quote “Sometimes I use […]
Dublin Down & Drinking Up
Day 192, Friday August 2, 2019 “It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can’t remember if it’s the thirteenth or the fourteenth.” -George Burns Sites Covered in this Post • Christ Church • Guinness Brewery • Pearse Lyons Distillery • Saint Patrick Church Christ Church Visiting churches always goes […]
Dublin, Home of Stout, Whiskey and No Use for Englishmen
Day 190, Wednesday July 31, 2019 “You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.” -Anne Lamott Sites Covered in this Post • Dublin Castle • Trinity College The Legend of the Irish The trip from County Donegal to […]
County Donegal
Day 186, Sunday July 28, 2019 “Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder” –Kinky Friedman Sites Covered in this Post • Studio Donegal (Kilcar) • Cionn Mhucrois (Muckross Head) • Sliabh Liag (Slieve League)Cliffs Studio Donegal From County Kerry we drove north. We’d intended to stop in Galway, but a little thing called […]
West Coast of Ireland: Moher or Less
Day 186, Friday, July 27, 2019 “If by a “Liberal” they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break […]
Limerick:There was a Young Lady from Nantucket
Day 185, Friday, July 26, 2019 There was a young girl of Cape Cod Who thought babies were fashioned by God, But ’twas not the Almighty Who hiked up her nightie – ‘Twas Roger, the lodger, by God! There was a young lady named Bright who traveled much faster than light. She set out one […]
Caught between a Rock and a Green Place
“Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it….” ― George Bernard Shaw Day 182, Tuesday, July 23, 2019 Sites Covered in this Post Garinish Island Eightercua Stone Row Rock of Cashel Lesson Learned: The weather in Ireland in the summer is amazing. […]
West Cork, an Amazing Eden of Greenery
If you’ve heard this story before, don’t stop me, because I’d like to hear it again. –Groucho Marx Day 179, Saturday, July 20, 2019 Sites Covered in this Post Ring of Beara, Cork Ewe Sculpture Garden Lesson Learned: Brexit is a big deal over here, but then again, so is cricket. Both have a lot […]
Kilkenny Castle with Waterford on the Side
“Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.” -Dandemis Day 179, Saturday, July 20, 2019 Sites Covered in this Post Kilkenny Castle Waterford Crystal Factory Lesson Learned: New private lodging rentals in Ireland want you to be safe. They don’t care if you can sleep, […]
Wandering the Wicklow Way
“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau Day 176, Wednesday, July 17, 2019 Lesson Learned: The highway systems in other countries that we’ve visited are different than the US. On the long haul, they are very good, […]