Redwood Country House Killarney
Tralee Road Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland
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Everything is Green!
... 500m or so, we were back to the beginning of the loop. No harm, no foul, but it is a forest and I should have known better. Won't happen again :) While we were driving to Kenmare last night, we passed many groups of sheep ... and seeing how it is Spring, there are lots of itty bitty lambs. They are so cute, we both said at once that what we really wanted to do was cuddle with a lamb. So that became a goal of the trip, and I did some research and found just the ...
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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Shawn brought the sun!
Shawn arrived on the 24! We had a low key day since neither of us slept due to travels the previous night.
On Sunday (Mal's Birthday!) we went to Bantry to do some walking/hiking. We did not really have a good map and the lady that gave us directions was very vague, so we headed off to create our own adventure. We walked along the coast, onto the beach, down a very small and run down airport runway, up a road, and came across a hiking sign that we decided ...
Oireachtas and Pixies
... Park. First we watched a baby Pomeranian try to nurse from its dad (…), the little puff ball running to and fro, with a rather proud master man. Our little stroll through the park was quite pleasant! Trees turned colors, fields beckoned us to trot through, paths crossed this way and that. We stayed in the clear sun as much as possible. Yes, clear. Barely a cloud in the sky. Greta told us that this is the first clear weekend she has seen ...



