Woodside Lodge Westport
Golf Course Road Westport, County Mayo, Western Ireland, Ireland
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Dia Duit From Ireland
Finally after a day long of flying from Chicago, Illinois at 1am CST Tuesday we finally landed in Sligo Airport at 6 pm GMT Wednesday evening. It was a cool 48 degrees unlike in Illinois it was a windy 10 degrees. The first thing we saw was their Woolen Mill. It was cool. Then we went downtown to rent a hotel. Then we went to go see all the cool shops downtown, we found out their was a little tour of Dublin, ...
What the Cong?!
... goat, I wouldn't be surprised. And we seem to have walked back in time to earlier days where technology was just too damn fancy as there is no operational Internet and one television station in English which cruelly plays Neighbours and Home & Away reruns. We are the only ones staying here in the middle of nowhere-ville, some 4km of dark, unlit roads away from 'town'. It will be a miracle is we don't turn to cannibalism ...
I'm a bog hopper!
... is a cross on the spot where we went bog hopping memorializing these people. Nowadays, a “famine walk” from Doo Lough to Louisburgh is held to raise money to send to starving people in Africa.
We stopped at the National Famine Memorial in Murrisk. It's a bronze sculpture of a coffin ship, and the figures on it are skeletons swirling around the ship's masts. There is a sister sculpture in New York that depicts skeletons walking down a ramp off of a ...
Thanks Magella
Another island recommendation. We lucked out again and as we drove closer to the island, the sky cleared up and we yet again were lucky enough to have another good weather day for island exploring. We didn't stay on the island but only because the hostels were all booked up. If given the choice, we would’ve!
Thanking Magella who didn't lead us astray,
Leann and ...
The Quiet Man
... d spend more time exploring these counties if we could and would recommend making them a high priority to check out if ever making a trip to Ireland.
Cong is located on the Republic of Irelands largest lake in County Mayo. We decided to make use of our previously purchased tent and camping gear and set up at a nearby campsite/hostel. It was a chilly and damp experience. However, it did give us the opportunity to watch the hostels nightly showing of "The Quiet ...



