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Last day in Ring of Kerry
We tried to stop at a beautiful lookout spot, but it was so foggy we could not see a single thing.
So then we continued on our way to Daniel O'Connell's 'Derrynane House.' He is known as the The Liberator and was an Irish political leader in the first half of the 19th century.
Next stop was the Torc Waterfall in Killarney National Park. Of ...
Ring of Kerry Day 2!
... the beach and were able check out McCarthy Castle.
After lunch, we took another trip to a fort. This one had walls 10 feet thick.
For the evening activities, we went to a pub to play trivia! 8 rounds, ten questions each. Luckily we had a boy from Canada on our team who happened to be a genius. And since we used our resources, we may have used from wifi.. Work smarter, not harder, right!? We won :)
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Off to the Ring of Kerry!
... It was really fun to learn the group dances and interact with other people on the trip we did not know. The dancing was also quite the workout. Later that night, we met up with some friends we had made from Minnesota and laughed so incredibly hard and shared our traveling stories with each other until 2 in the morning. ...
Week 6
... fallen off the side of a mountain. As we traveled through the beautiful scenery we had a great view of the Skellig rocks. What are they? The Skelligs are these huge rocks (more like mountains) in the middle of the ocean where over a 1000 years ago a group of monks climbed and carved a monetary out of hand. AKA one of the world’s hidden gems of true beauty. From Sneem we traveled to Waterville where the infamous Charlie Chaplin enjoyed his holiday.after that ...
Dingle is a Funny Name
... something WAY different.
On the way back, my pub friend told me the back story of last night. That huge group of drunk businessmen gather every now and then at different parts of Ireland just for a fun weekend out, away from their normal daily grind. When they came into the pub, they saw me sitting in the corner and thought to each other, "She looks like Hilary Swank. She's cute, but her little uncle is weird [the leprechaun man]." They ...


