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Last day in Ring of Kerry
... I fell in, in front of pretty much our entire group. Megan just casually stepped onto a rock on the water so I followed, and I fell off of one rock, onto another, and into the water. Grace the gymnast as her best.
Next stop was I believe Muckross Gardens before we headed back to Cork!
Stay tuned... OFF TO MOROCCO (YES AFRICA!!) ON THURSDAY!
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Ring of Kerry Day 2!
... Cliffs.
There was then a quick stop at Our Lady Grotto at a slate quarry.
Then we stopped to learn about The Skelligs. This is where Monks decided to live. They built three sets of stairways (620 steps each) around the island. They chose this extreme difficult lifestyle in order to be closer to God. They survived for a very long time until the Vikings, who out numbered them, took over.
We stopped ...
Off to the Ring of Kerry!
... wolf-dogs and one of the smallest horses in the world. Our next stop was a beautiful lookout spot with a nice view. It was kind of terrifying winding and speeding on the most narrow roads with no guard rails next to a cliff that leads to water. But we made it! That night we had a guest speaker who also taught us some ...
Week 6
... get Ceili dancing lessons. I thought I was going to be a little cute 20 min. demonstration on how to Irish step dance… NO! we were there for 2 hours sweating like animals because the lessons were so intense. Needless to say, we all slept wall after that.
Saturday: Woke up bright an early for an all Irish breakfast and begin the day of adventure! Words can hardly describe the amazing adventure I had. I stood on the cliffs at Sneem. We traveled to ...
A balanced breakfast
... sandwiches, which were small but served on a really hearty, crunchy brown bread. The lady had several different options for dessert, and I got chocolate biscuit cake with cream. Katherine and Michelle both got hot rhubarb crumble with cream. All in all, we left satisfied.
Walked back down along Main Street, where we were tickled to see a pub with Guinness signs in Gaelic. Irish really is impossible. With French or Spanish or even German, you might not know what the word ...


