Ballygarry House Hotel & Spa Tralee

... The spectacular scenery views of mountains were soothing to eyes. Then we headed for the drive from Ventry to Slea Head . We also enjoyed golfing, horse riding, fishing and other activities during our trip.

I shall be planning a trip again to this place with family in a year or so .

My Dingle Accommodation
Wiki Dingle

... the touristy thing to do in Killarney don't you know! We trotted past the race track, which was built on landfill and has a 9 hole golf course in the middle!. We stopped at Ross castle, the scene of many a wedding photo as we found - at least 4 weddings stopped by while we were there!

So tonight is the last supper with the tour group. Dinner with everyone then out for drinks - just for something out of the ordinary!

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... Randy Leprechaun, but is located right over the road from the village church. So everyone got all offended, and the colour scheme has been muted down. We've all had a good feed and have a night of karaoke ahead. The bar special is the irish carbomb - which is a pot of guiness, into which a shot of whiskey and baileys is placed and you just slam it down - 3 for 10 Euro so will be an interesting night, to be sure, to be sure!

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... coming through, and a rainbow. It is the wierdest weather. How do people live in this fulltime. Back home when it rains we all feel like it gives us a good excuse to lay in bed all day and be lazy...imagine the lives we would live if we were fulltime residents in Ireland.

This trip is going to be a huge test for us girls...thereis going to be some serious trials and tribulations that we're going to come across and it'll be ...

... blog!
We stopped in the small town of Caherdaniel and walked around, even went into a little shop, but a lot of the stores were closed. The recession had hit here hard. We wanted to grab some lunch, but decided to do it in another town because we didn't see anything that looked good.
We next went to the Staigue Fort. This is a stone ring fort that is centuries old. The Irish used to live in these ring forts and they can ...

... family for many, many years. The owner was actually the one who greeted everyone at the house. He was an old man and had to show the house to be able to afford to keep it in the family. The residence was not very large so it did not take very long to look around. The inside of the house was very ornate with a lot of old furniture- kind of Victorian. The gardens were very nice and detailed and the view of the coast was amazing.
We ...

... May 21st - Going Home We got up and had one last Irish breakfast, gathered our stuff and loaded the car, in the rain, of course, and headed off to the airport, which was only about a 10 minute drive. We returned the car to Avis and were shuttled back to the airport. Our trip was almost done. Only the last 8 hour segment of our trip was left. We took a short flight back over to Dublin to pick up more people. We sat on the tarmac for about an hour, watching the rain fall as ...

... have enhanced the view of the landscape we passed through. As we passed through the little town of Tralee, Joe told us the story of Tralee's claim to fame. Apparently there is an international pageant there called "The Rose of Tralee" and it is supposed to be quite famous. Has anyone heard of it? Anyway, Joe was very much a proponent of this pageant and he claimed to be one of the next pageant's escorts. He paid good money for the honor, too! Go Joe.

... to get her twelve year old son to practice his Irish dancing for us. He was extremely good, but I’m sure the poor kid felt a little embarrassed at having to put on a circus act of sorts for his mum’s paying guests. And so on later reflection it turned out that this was to be our bronze medal winning accommodation, and for better or worse had just enjoyed our top three favourite Irish B&Bs in three successive nights.

All back in Doris and off towards Dingle. South Africa were playing a trinations game against Australia so we decided to find a pub and watch the rugby. In Tralee we found a spot showing the game. Australia won, baaaaa. A couple more Guinesses and then off to Dingle.