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Wicklow Slideshow
Top Hotels in Wicklow
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Grand Hotel Wicklow
48 reviews -
Hunter's Hotel Wicklow
41 reviews -
Old Rectory Country House Wicklow
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Powerscourt Arms Country House Wicklow
14 reviews
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Wicklow Way Lodge
92 reviews -
Glenmalure Hostel Wicklow
1 review -
Blainroe Hotel Wicklow
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Travel Blogs from Wicklow, Ireland
Ready again..... this one's gonna be big, I hope
This is a top pick! ... , what of the trip itself? Well plans change and mine certainly always seem to. But as things stand at the moment I'll be leaving Ireland for Tokyo, Japan, on July 11th. Assuming I've any money left after that it'll be onto South Korea for the third time ...
An end in sight
This is a top pick! ... for the French leg of the trip, and all accommodation has been pre-booked for the locations we'll be visiting from Ireland to Naples, Italy. All except for Venice that is. Booking reasonable accommodation ahead of schedule in Venice is a challenge, so ...
Home - entertaining and getting organized
This is a top pick! Entry on the way. Honest. Not that it's going to say much; the photos do all that for me. So check them out in the meantime. And ...
Where the heart is... & where 'the Honeymoon' ends
This is a top pick! · Wicklow, Ireland · GMT +0:00hrs Entry to follow... ...
The Henkster in Ireland
This is a top pick! ... a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking - George Ade, Forty Modern Fables Getting Organised I made it back to Ireland and didn't really have time to experience the come-down that normally accompanies a return home from a trip. That ...
Wicklow Hills Tour
... us for this tour in the "Garden of Ireland", which lived up to its name. We then continued further into County Wicklow to the beautiful ancient monastery of Glendalough, founded by St. Kevin in the sixth century. These islands of learning were critical ...
One Week to Go
One week to go now and I've had lots of people asking where I'm off to and for how long so here's a VERY brief and rough summary of the plan (at the moment, though this may change at any given time!!!) Leave for Kathmandu (Nepal) via Delhi on Nov ...
glendalough
glendalough was awesome!!!!!! its in wicklow county, near bray. we took the bus to a national park there. it had some old medieval churches, but then we walked further down these beautiful trails, and came up on some lakes. it was gorgeous outside ...
Powerscourt - Unbelievable
So, this morning we left Kilkenny...and headed to Wicklow...another beautful drive. We saw the Powerscourt Waterfall, which is out of this world....Also went to The Gardens....Beautiful....We ended up driving into Dublin (yes, I drove in Dublin!!!) To me ...
More of Ireland...
... we took a rail tour out to the Irish countryside. We visited the tiny village of Avoca, which was at the base of the Wicklow Mountains. The village was beautiful, and of course, we stopped in a famous pub (Fitzgeralds) for a Guinness. Then we moved on ...
Back to Dublin
... view out over sheep-filled paddocks, and the campground owner was very friendly. Unfortunately the two pubs in the village didn't serve food (they don't seem to eat in Ireland, just drink), so we had to go to the nearby town of Baltinglass for ...
Gleann Dá Loch - Glen of Two Lakes
today i went on a day trip with the international office at uni. we went to glendalough, a 6th century monastic settlement about an hour south of the uni campus. as soon as we got there i realised i'd forgotten my camera, i remembered the spare battery ...
Glendalough
I'm just throwing a few pictures up here from our field trip to Glendalough in Co. Wicklow as I am very far behind on my ...
Home. Upon reflection
... from dying, from dying at least until such time as I get to do it again. People always said to us, particularly before we left Ireland, that it's going to be a "once-in-a-lifetime trip". Well maybe it was insofar as visiting so many locations in the one ...
Day 3: Glendalough, Dublin and Abbey Tavern
Our tour departed Dublin early in the morning for Glendalough, which is a monastic site in county Wicklow south of Dublin. The ride went through some pretty landscape and took a bit over an hour. Once there we were taken inside the guest center where we ...
Here we go
Alrighty, this is it. Its the 18th of October. Time to head east and find my beach. I just hope I can get my climbing chalk past ...
Our Chi is back to center
... that is still carried with them today. Monks of the 17th century wrote about the caves and the Viking Godfrey's raids on Ireland countryside. The stilagmites and stilagtites in the cave date back to as old as 1 million years ago. We then ...
From Blarney to Avoca
Hi. We're condensing a couple of days here but we did some things that we thought we'd like to share. We spent part of a day in Cork City and then on to Cobh (pronounced Cove) which is the sight of the Irish Heritage museum and the place where ...
Renting an Irish Cottage
The Wicklow Way is Ireland’s most popular way marked trail- winding over 100 kilometres through the high heather hills south of Dublin. It’s proximity to the city means that at its northern end at least, it gets a fair amount of traffic. That ...
Ah, For Sure!
... in May. With the leaves changing colours, it was an ideal time to walk or bike along the local pathways, take in a Wicklow Forest Walk or the Greystones-to-Bray seaside pathway as an outing granted incredible views of the crimson and golden coloured ...
Strangford - Glebe - Party in the Wicklow Mtns.
... up in Glencree Centre. It was lots of fun and I did see about half a dozen old friends. All the things one might expect in Ireland - lots of grilled meat, plenty of drink, lots of singing, too much smoking and staying up to the wee hours. I was far too ...
South coast and gardens tour
on our 5th try we finally managed to go on the tour to powerscourt house! we drove out of the city through the docklands and past the uni campus to dun laoghaire, the major harbour town in dublin city. we stopped in bray, a seaside town further down the ...
Getting ready to go
***************************************** Update - April 2008 **************************************** You might want to check out part of my 2005/2006 Meandering2005 blog where I was lucky enough to revisit Vietnam, Cambodia & Thailand, and my ...
Where to go
Ok, still considering which country to goto. At the moment its a flip up between Brazil and Peru. Both look good. Brazil seems cheaper and easier to get to, but Peru is smaller, seems easier to get around and has a nice climbing area. Will update this ...
Last Full Day at Home
Tomorrow afternoon I'm getting a train to Galway, where I'll be staying over night with my aunt and cousin in Tuam. The bus leaves from Eyre Square in Galway City at 11am on Friday morning. On my way at last (almost)! I gotta go finish packing ...
Bray
Bray (aka Ireland's Coney Island) was yet another of our many recent one day trips out of the city. For those of us who were not born with a sense of direction, it was quite easy to get lost in this tiny coastal community. Not all was a waste however as ...
Nearly Time To Go
A journey of a thousand miles starts in front of your feet - Lao tzu As the title says, it's nearly time to go. Aside from a 5 week teaching stint in South Korea last December, I haven't gotten up to much since getting back from my round the world ...
Theres Feck All to do in Arklow
We are now in Arklow having left Howth yesterday (Sunday) at 05.15. The first part of the sail was delightful, light breeze, boat doing 6 knots and the sun rising in the East warming us up. After 2 hours the wind died and we motored anothre 4 hour in ...