Bay View Hotel Waterville

A few weeks back I planned a short trip to Dingle town with my friends. We stayed at Castlewood House in a luxurious set up located on the shores of Dingle Bay. When we arrived at the place, we were greeted with a warm cup of tea. We had booked two deluxe rooms and we were overwhelmed with spacious and stylish designs of the rooms. The rooms had ...

... 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 ...

... the life of the founder of the order in murals painted an all the walls. Quite nice!

We walked back to Dingle Crystal, and I got a small piece of Sean Daly’s work. Maybe I can start a collection! Sean’s wife Liz is a very friendly and helpful person--she tried to convince John that I needed more than one piece.

Since I got crystal, John wanted ice cream and we went down the hill to Murphy’s, home of Ireland’s most ...

... 8221; was filmed there and it has a rugged beauty that touches the soul. While John stayed near the car, I went down and walked to the edge of the surf. By the time I got back to the car I was pretty wet, but I have another memory.

We found the ruins of Reask monastic settlement, which were not much more than rock foundations, but we gave them a little time anyway. We stopped at the pottery studio of Louis Mulcahy and looked around. His pieces are lovely, but not my style.

Dingle, County Kerry, Ireland rovingwerners

... ve decided to go for a trip to South America for a while and immiedietly we've started our preparation.

We've started from learning Spanish and gaining information about places we're interested in.
We've decided to travel from Patagonia along Andes through Chile, Ecuador and Peru. We will visit Bolivia, Mexico and Vancouver (if we have enough money). We'd like to spend ...

... who had been out on the RIB would return safely.

When we got back to the Island the others had settled in happily to wait in the café/bar beside the ferry ramp, and we had lunch there before moving off to the church to visit Aunt Mary-Ellen's grave where John’s ashes had been spread last year. It was some distance to the church and we had only a Nissan Micra – not really capable of ...

This morning we had an excursion to Bunratty Castle and Folk park before heading off to Waterville. Very cool 15th Century Castle. The folk park was very well done. Consisted of two sections-one full of traditional Irish thatched cottages showing different levels of wealth/standard of living. The second area was Victorian. Very 'working village' with peat burning ...

... brakes? Over here, they are on the opposite sides of the handrails. I had a few close calls, needless to say! I didn't notice they had really nice Raleigh bikes till it was too late! Oh well, I may have looked like a dork riding it, but it was really nice to be riding again, especially with the views I had! And the stone walls that were everywhere! Some even holding cattle from wandering to the ...

... 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.

... of the galaxy. There were few lights over the water from the other side of the harbour, but those few glimmered over the water through the darkness. A quiet evening in a small town in Ireland. Back at the B&B, I hung around in the living room area for a while, watching TV ("telly") with the proprietors. The American election results were trickling in and alas, Bush was winning a second term. Oh well, so much for the free world. Went to bed cozily enough anyway.