The Gables Bed & Breakfast Limerick
Athea Village Limerick, County Limerick, Ireland
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Adare and Limerick
... and even leprechauns. His son continues to work the farm--a dairy herd, following all of the regulations of Irish farming.
We then traveled on to the village of Adar, population 2400, for lunch and a close look at thatched cottages. Had another great soup--sea food for me and vegetable for Janice. It's a busy little village with lots of shops, pubs, and restaurants. As an aside, we learned that for every pub ...
Irish Mother's Day
Julie made pancakes for everyone since it was Mother's Day. And i discovered putting nutella and honey on pancakes, delicious! And there was also porridge, cereal, tea, oj, milk (store bought for us and fresh from the cows too!), breads, tomatoes, sausages, cheeses, and so much more. So we all ate for ever around the table, with the wood stove crackling and traditional Irish music playing in the background (swap that ...
Eat and orange and it will be grand
... and kind of ugly) that we wore them alllllll weekend long while we were at their house. Her parents and sister kept joking and laughing at how old the jumpers were and couldn't believe we didn't want to take them off. It was also freezing inside because the Irish don't believe in heat. Now, i'm not sure if I have ever been this close and personal to a cow or have like been inside seeing the entire milking process ...
Rag Week and Convention Madness
... to raise lots of money for Irish charities. Don’t ask me how this turns into drunken nincompoop week, but it does. Rag weeks at all the universities are wild drunken parties, and UL tops the charts. UL is already Ireland’s party school, which is saying something since this is Ireland, we are talking about. Ireland is a wild country, so to have the wildest school in Ireland means that UL is very wild indeed. Students at UL are ...
A Scattering of Random Adventures
... get me started... gag), so Monday was a fluke in good entertainment. I had a double feature, first The Inbetweeners, which I had watched a little at home when it was on BBCA. Funny, mildly inappropriate show about hormonal high school kids, British style. The next was An Idiot Abroad, which I had watched at home on Discovery (why Discovery?), which is directed by Ricky Gervais (go figure) and documents the travel of his surly, cranky friend. Then, because I was ...


