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Aran Islands Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Aran Islands, Ireland
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Stones, stones, and more stones!
This is a top pick! Today we were setting off to the Aran Islands. There are 3 different ones, and they all have very small populations, practice some traditional farming, and are skattered with old ruins. We set off to the Tourist Information ...
An Island of Stone
This is a top pick! ... the morning unsure of what we were going to do for the day, but after going to an information centre we decided to go to the Aran Islands and check out a 3000 year old fort that was there. We drove west of Galway to where we could catch the ferry over to ...
Lost and Found Again -- European Escapades
This is a top pick! ... who picked up his prized Canadians and delivered us to our caretaker. Thanks dude. ------------ I managed to talk Erin into biking the Aran Islands with me not five days later, still full of aches and pains. Silly girl! Just doesn't learn, does she? ...
Cheap sweaters - from China - no more?
This is a top pick! The Aran islands is famous for its sweaters - made of wool, warm and each with its own family-based design. These were used to identify lost fishermen. Before the use of dental record matching or DNA samples. Even though the west of Ireland has been ...
Return to Galway
This is a top pick! I bestowed my birthday flowers on the old lady who helps her daughter run the B&B. (It's a family affair, with the preteen children helping out too.) She was tickled pink. I felt bad letting them go, but her pleasure was worth it. Then I caught the ...
Dun Aengus/Dun Aonghasa
This is a top pick! ... time I was done, it was still raining. I decided I'd better get going anyway. Rain doesn't usually last long in Galway, but the Aran Islands are right out in the ocean and I didn't know what to expect from the weather. So I brushed off my bike seat as ...
Happy Birthday To Me!
This is a top pick! ... St. Brendan's B&B, in the town of Kilronan, on the island of Inishmore, largest of the Aran Islands, off the west coast of the Republic of Ireland. I have to say...That's a pretty impressive-sounding place to spend a birthday. (Though leaving a ...
The Black Fort
This is a top pick! ... my senses and what little my guidebook told me. Later I would learn that there are many of these promontory cliff forts in Ireland, but their age is a mystery--Ireland has so many archaeological sites that it can't excavate them all. The best guess is ...
Leaving the Island
This is a top pick! On Saturday night, I wrenched myself from my homebody cocoon and checked out the pub scene. I was joined by my two dormmates, Rosin and Sarah, and several staff from the hostel. We listened to live music and watched the crowd, mostly Irish tourists, ...
The Aran Islands
This is a top pick! I arrived on the Aran Islands weary of city travel. I felt ready for the countryside, I was yearning for peace and quiet. Inishmore, the largest of the archipelago, has delivered. We all have places where the land speaks to us, and Inishmore is one of ...
A trip to the edge of the world
Today was a fantastic day! We did a tour that took us up into Connemara National park and over to the Aran Islands. Connemara was interesting because the terrain changed from rolling farmland into harsh mountain bogs, and the land was so rough that people ...
Inis Moore
From Gallway, it is a short boat ride out to the Arran Islands, which have an almost desolately beautiful aire about them. There we stayed at the Mannor House and lucked out getting bumped into a private room (we had had little privacy the whole trip) ...
Inis Oirr
... ". Similar thought process applied in our island decision dilemma. Minus the soft bed of course. There's three Aran islands off the West coast of Ireland. The largest and most popular amongst tourists being Inis Mor. The midsized and quietest being Inis ...
bringin mum and dad to the island!
We had a very short but GREAT stay! Couldn't have asked for better weather and a better time. uinseon took time off work to drive me mum and dad around the island. They fell in love with it just as much as I did! We stayed at ...
ALWAYS ask whats in the trophy cup B4 U drink it!
Just got back from the AMAZING Aran Islands!!! I just went for the day and over night yesterday, the weather has been SO HOT HOT HOT lately that on my one day off I knew I needed to get out of town! Dave was going in the night but I harassed him to ...
the Aran island, Inishmore
... another night in Galway it is. Hopefully better than last night? But really, everyone should go to the Aran islands if you ever visit Ireland. It's absolutely amazing. Especially on a sunny day. I wish we had more time there ...
So a priest goes into a bar......
WOW what a CRAZY weekend! I am too exhausted right now to write all about it so I will just post all my photos and tomorrow I will try and tell you ALL about my crazy weekend! Father Ted Weekend is CRAZY and I had the time of my ...
Legs Eleven
That operantly was my new nickname from the weekend! I have a few more crazy photos and then i will write my entry. I am EXHAUSTED still from the ...
A Barren Wasteland
Today we woke up early to pack our things, get breakfast and buy ferry tickets to head to the Aran Islands. It was hard to pack quietly to not wake up the other roommates but we tried. When we were finished we headed to the bus and took a trip to the port ...
Home Sweet Home!!!
So i am back in Galway/Aran Islands!!! It was a LONGGG day on sat! had to get up at 4 am and got into Galway at 8pm! went out on the tare with Zoe then had to drag my ass on sunday over to Aran! Visiting with dave and my Island ...
Lovely Day for a Bike Ride
Hey! Today we got up early and caught the first ferry to the Aran Islands which are right off the coast of Galway to spend the day and one night. We went to Inish Mohr which is the biggest island and only 2 hours from Galway City. Once we got to the ...
Aran Islands
... Cliffs of Moher accomodation through Doolin to the ferry dock to we took a day trip to the middle island of 3. The 3 islands are Inishmore, Inishmaan and Inisheer. Inish means Island. Maan means middle. The day was clear and sunny and the sea ...
Aran Islands (specifically Inishmor)
... Island pictures were uploaded to flickr with the last batch so no new ones todays. We took a couple of days to stay on the Aran Islands. There was a bus/ferry that went from Galway which made it pretty easy. A lot of people use Galway as an anchor ...
The Aran Islands
... ! What a perfect day to walk around an island and see a fort built over 2500 years ago. So that's what we did. The Aran Islands are located West of the mainland in the Galway Bay. They are a group of three islands that have similar rock formations to ...
5 Exchange Students and a Hired Car
... not ever no way. Once we were toasty we headed back out. We walked through some of the shops. Apparently the Aran islands is birthplace of the Aran sweater, which is like a fisherman sweater (you know, the wool ones with the criss-cross ...
Craziness, always craziness! This is NOT your room
Last night Barbara came over and I made her TACOS! YUMMM!!! We drank wine laughed it was so fun! Decided lets not end the evening well go for "one" at the pub! She wanted to go to the hotel and I hadn't been there in forever so awesome ...
Goodbye Inishmore
... I cant believe how time flew by! I just spent 8 amazing days on this island. If you ever get come to Ireland coming here is a MUST! From the green green grass lined with stone walls, cattle grazing, men riding in their carriage drawn by ...
Do you speak English?
Hopefully you can see on the map where the Aran Islands are. There are three of them and we went to Inis Mor, the largest of the three. First we had to take a bus to Rossaveal and then hopped on a high-speed catamaran. It took about an hour for each ...
pics from tramore beach and road trip
... After walking around the city a bit, Tom decided it might be best to hop a ferry and go see the Aran Islands, since they have the oldest ruins in Ireland this was best for their sketching, I was stoked because this is one of the places in Ireland ...
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