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Our First Real Irish Pub Experience
Today we took another trip to the Aran Islands. This time we went to Inishmore, the biggest and most visited. We had an hour's drive to get to Rossaveel, where the ferry departed from. While we waited to board, I got out my netbook to blog. And after we boarded, we just got some seats and I blogged some more. The coastline wasn’t very scenic …
Scenic Drives Galore + Best Music of the Trip
Today we did a lot of driving around the whole Connemara region, with one long stop to see a beautiful abbey & garden. Here are the highlights:
- Sky Road: a drive along a small peninsula just to the west Clifden. There were some great views.
· Roundstone loop: another drive along the edges of a larger peninsula, this …
I finally felt like I was in Europe today
Today we left Doolin and headed up to our last stop in Connemara. I drove today because mom wasn't feeling very good with her cold. But we had barely driven yesterday so I didn’t mind.
We decided to head out of Doolin along a coastal road that went out to Black Head, where The Burren meets the sea. And just as we were getting …
BEST DAY OF WHOLE TRIP!
... and gradually getting steeper. Well, the pictures will tell the story!!
Up and up and up – the scenery becoming even more amazing as we headed onwards and each step, once out of the bogs was onto a placed piece of slate (of course Rich gave me my geology lesson - it's called to a schist, which is metamorphosed rock). An Irish chap we met on the way up said it was an 8 million Euro project and all the rock was dropped by helicopter. What ...
The Irish are NUTS!!
100 km speed limits on these nutsy small, narrow, no shoulder roads!! cannot believe it - I LOVE to drive fast but even 60 km at times was more than enough on the twists and turns on our drive today. My day to drive today - long driving day but o my goodness the beauty!!! We are blown away with the beauty of the Irish countryside - absolutely gorgeous!! Now relaxing in a lovely very old Manor ...
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