Robeen House Killarney
Muckross Rd. Killarney, County Kerry, Ireland
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Everything is Green!
... and will not be returning to Kenmare. Hence the need to finish the laundry! I said to Ann Marie tonight before she went to bed, "You probably think it’s very odd that I enjoy writing my travel journal entries every night. It probably seems to you as if I’m writing an essay every night." (She hates writing essays.) She answered without skipping a beat "Yeah, but you don’t have to come up with quotations to support your thesis." I think I just proved her wrong. ...
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 ...
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
... high school auditorium and found a seat near the back (someone told me to do that so I could duck out more easily). We watched kids through adults dance their hearts away. Prague did very well, smiling ear to ear. Giant professional looking cameras floated around, reminding me that this was televised live. Everything was in Irish, which didn’t really bother me since dancing requires no speaking.
When we had enough dancing, I texted ...



