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Olinda Kilkenny

Castle Road Kilkenny, County Kilkenny, Ireland

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Dublin to Rock of Cashel

A travel blog entry by tammnel

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... perhaps there is such a thing as too much preparation :) I bought a rather pricey sweater but I suspect (hope) that it will be one of those pieces of clothing that lasts forever and is timeless enough that I can wear it well into the future. Ann Marie (helping me to rationalize it) said that it would be like paying a dollar a year for the sweater. I won't say how much I paid, I'll just say that I'm really glad that she is so certain I will live that far past ...

Waterford....Vedrafjord - 'windy city'

A travel blog entry by storguson

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After Kilkenny, we stopped at the House of Waterford Crystal factory for a fascinating tour. George and William Penrose set up the original factory in 1783. Timber from surrounding forests fueled the huge furnaces producing molten crystal: 20 tons of wood fired 9 tons of glass melt. In 1799 the Penroses sold the business to their clerk who worked closely with ...

Medieval Kilkenny

A travel blog entry by storguson

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Today we headed out of Dublin to Kilkenny. Our drive was scenic--as Irish as you might imagine--green rolling hills, cows and calves, sheep and their lambs, and horses. Pastures are separated by short and tall hedgerows as they have apparently been for thousands of years.

Kilkenny is one of Ireland's most ...

Rolling with the Punches

A travel blog entry by sraffel

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... to have new shoes. Then, we popped over the the Shake Shop and tried a Jaffa Cake shake for scientific purposes. Are Jaffa Cakes just as tasty when blended with ice cream? Yes.

Anyway, we headed toward Glendalough, taking a beautiful scenic drive through Wicklow National Park. We took a different road than the bus Joy and I took a few weeks earlier, probably because it was a bit narrow for a bus. I ...

Good for the Soul

A travel blog entry by dyer0930

... to the ruins of the priory and the old mill on the Kings River, and we had a nice, if drizzly walk around and back up to the car through the town of Kells. We drove by a couple of other ruins, and then headed over to Thomastown for dinner at Sol Bistro. The cuisine was just gourmet comfort food, well presented and with melding taste, although not particularly Irish. We started with an appetizer of incredibly tender, slow cured beef. For dinner, I had ...

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