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Everything is Green!
... no lake. The guidebook should have paid more attention to the name of the trail . . . it was very pretty but not even large enough to earn the name "small pond". It was a pool of water, magnificently colored and yet perfectly clear, surrounded by moss-covered trees. The walk to the pool was fun, wobbly bridges over babbling brooks, then the trail wound up and down steep hills, through moss-covered forests. We know there are no leprechauns, but if there were ... this ...
Ring of Kerry
We left very early this morning...again!! But oh, so worth the early alarm. Just out of Killarney we stopped briefly to see some ogham stones. Ogham is sometimes called the "Celtic Tree Alphabet", based on a high medieval tradition ascribing names of trees to the individual letters.The bulk of Ogham stones are in the south of Ireland, in Counties Kerry, Cork and ...
All about Killarney
... us perspective on what it must have been like to travel in this mode. Our Irish driver, Dennis Doona, missing one front tooth, was just about as interesting and fun as they come. He was full of information, including the fact that there is a strong connection between the Muckross House--which was our destination in the park--and Filoli Gardens in Woodside and the Empire Mine in Grass ...
Dingle is a Funny Name
... and kissed my cheek. I managed to turn around and pull away from the pub. On my walk back, down eerily empty dark streets, my eyes started to tear up as I sighed and thanked God for such a wonderful, memorable night. I commented out loud, "THAT's why I moved to Ireland."
I returned to the hostel at 1am and quietly climbed to my bunk. One Jewish boy was snoring comically loud and the crusty the clown English man below me snorted and ****** a ...
Salmon of Knowledge (encore)
... Collins, at 10:00 for a drive around the Dingle Peninsula. Tim used to be the police chief in town and is very knowledgeable about the area's flora. Because the Gulf Stream gives this area a very mild, temperate climate, there are plants growing here that you wouldn't expect to see in Ireland. Palm trees and plants imported from Africa and South America line the roads, and fuchsia grows like a weed here. (The Gaelic for fuchsia means “tears of God.”) He was ...


