O'Flaherty's Bed & Breakfast Dingle
Conor Pass Road Dingle, Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, Ireland
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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
... where the famous Valentia slate is harvest. *Fun Fact: the building the houses the entire English Parliament in London is made completely of Valentia slate.* We got to climb a mountain and feed baby cows! They we literally a few days old and we so cute, and there are sheep everywhere! We basically scaled mountains on a one way street in a huge tour bus… I was very impressed with the bus driver’s skills because if that were me driving we probably ...
A balanced breakfast
... you can sound it out and be reasonably close to the correct pronunciation. But since Irish doesn't come from Latin, it's a different animal altogether. Before coming to Ireland, I made myself an Irish playlist for my iPod that I would listen to on the bus. One song is called “Tochailt uaighe go roluath.” I guarantee that however you're pronouncing that right now, it is completely wrong. (By the way, it means roughly “digging myself an early grave.”) There's a ...

