Barrow House Tralee

... facilities such as ensuite bathroom, multi channel TV, radio, DVD and CD player, direct dial telephone, modem access and other services coupled with the best of hospitality. The food served in breakfast was of very good quality and was very yummy.

We planned to go for a tour of the city and visited the Connor Pass which took about 1 ...

... bird mass I have ever witnessed.


You need a dose of Irish luck to even make it to the islands. Trips run at most 100 days of the year. The boat ride out on a calm day is enough to make the average traveller seasick. I can’t even imagine the size of the waves and swells on the 265 days of the year that it isn’t safe to venture out to the islands.

Boats generally leave ...

(Polish/English)

Rok temu wpadlismy na pomysl zeby wybrac sie w podroz do Ameryki Poludniowej na czas nieokreslony i od razu zaczelismy nasze przygotowania.

Zaczelismy od nauki hiszpanskiego i od zdobywania informacji na temat interesujacych nas miejsc. Postanowilismy nasza podroz zaczac od Patagonii i podrozowac wzdluz Andow przez Chile, Ecuador i Peru. Mamy zamiar ...

... We ate at a little deli and then walked around some of the shops in town. This place was a little bit more lively as it seemed to be a stop for a lot of the tourist busses. I am definitely glad we drove ourselves because it gave us the freedom to explore what we wanted and make a lot of stops!
The last real stop was a little shop called Avoca right off the side of the road. We had seen it driving up to Killarney the previous ...

... of the grounds and the water that it bordered. It was located right on the outskirts of Killareny, so we decided just to proceed to our hotel.
The hotel was defiantly on the outskirts of town in the middle of the country. It was really a place where golfers stay, because there were a lot of golf courses in the area. The accommodations were actually more of a bed and breakfast, but there was plenty of room and it had privates ...

... But then they started to grumble - they missed the cucumbers (who misses cucumber, I ask you?). They ended up wandering about for 40 years, and the grown ups died. Hope that doesn't happen to us. Note to self. Whatever the weather, whatever the accommodation is like, however tired I am, I must remember not to grumble. Give thanks in everything. Someone well known said that. Can't remember who just at this moment, but it's good advice.

... go on a boat ride or just hang out in town. We got in at about 3pm from Killarney, which was a pretty place, but touristy. It was like Aspen, CO. I've never been there, but I assume that's what it would look like. It was in the mountains though and there was a nice castle and a waterfall. We were planning on going to Kinsale, but decided against it after I ran a mile to the tourist office to find out if they had camping ...

... or sleep. But thnakfully it is clearing up slowly. What a wonderful way to spend my 1st 2 weeks. haha. Hmm.. also on wednesday we are taking a trip to killarney. Just a day trip. We will be back later that night, but it will feel good to get out of the apartment. The weather has been terrible but thats ireland for ya. Just rain rain rain and windy and cold, but i didnt expect anything less. On the 27th we are going to Dublin ...

... we were off on our merry way again. In addition to the thickest of thick accents Kerry is also pretty well known as a county that takes Gaelic Football particularly seriously, and near Castlemaine we pulled over and watched a local scratch game for a while. This was the first time I had seen the game played in the flesh and I was also hoping that we’d be able to see hurling, Ireland’s other great fast and physical ...

... half the size and withdraws itself far out into the Atlantic, aloof and infinitely untouchable. At all times, this island has an appearance of mysterious self-containment and otherness, totally at odds with the visible relics of human occupation and cultivation." And in the words of Tomas O'Criomhthain, "the like of us will not be seen again". At the heritage center, a letter said "I was inside with an old widow a ...