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Everything is Green!
... at her legs "When is it my turn! Hold me!" (Of course, she gave each one a fair turn.) So clearly they are happy puppies. And presumably they aren't hard to find homes for; there were just as many moms and dads finding it hard to put the puppy down as there were kids. One more "green" note. The "parking lot" at the farm was a gorgeous green lawn. Prettier than any putting green in the DC area. It felt a sin to drive on it, but it sprung back without leaving ...
The Luck of the Americans
... kindly drove us an hour to Killarney where we met Mary. Mary is a woman we met on the train to Cork the other day with her husband John. They so generously offered us their vacation home for today and tomorrow which is absolutely grand. It's only about a ten min walk from the town centre and it is gorgeous. We walked into town after they drove us to it and gave us a tour. We got a ninety ...
Ring of Kerry
... addition, we stopped for some misty photos at Killeen Golf Course, home of the Irish Open.
The landscape today was much like the California north coast--and different in many ways, too. The drive is a 110-mile loop which follows the coast part of the way and then moves inland. The vistas are a combination of peat bogs, sheep farms, houses, resorts, stone ...
All about Killarney
... William Bowers Bourn owned the Muckross house in the late 1800 to early 1900s. In fact, we learned that murals of Muckross house and grounds are painted in Filoli Gardens. By the way, Muckross in Irish means pig peninsula.
A BEAUTIFUL sunny, warm day--75F!! Locals are flabbergasted and happy about this kind of weather in March...and so are we!
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DINGLE. tee hee
... that actually would have said….. Not switched
This was the one part of the trip that I was MOST looking forward to was seeing the sunset on this crazy winding pathway down to the ocean. Looked spectacular. I was beyond excited!!!
As we arrive in Dingle the sky looks threatening. Heavy. Rainy. Does this mean we cannot illegally drive into someones field and pitch our tent? Bastereds.
My well laid plans of driving around for ours in the hunt is foiled!!!
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