Hotel Curracloe
Travel Blogs from Curracloe
Time in Gorey
Today Liz and I went to an Aquatics swim class.in Coral Leisure Centre within Courttown. The building won an award for conservation of energy. So it included solar pannels near the pool and a wind mill near the entrance. There was a large number of swimmers mainly women. The class was pretty busy and it was a good size poll. The instructor was good and we did most of the ...
Time with Liz (so far)
I said bye to Aaron today and went to Dublin by bus to meet Liz (Iona's mom).
Took the 14:00 bus from Cork station and it took about 4 hours to get to Dublin.Upon meeting with Liz we had dinner at Cornucopia (a vegetarian restaurant) and went to a pub. We had a 1/2 pint of Guiness with black currant and listened to some traditional Irish music. We then drove to Gorey (about 1 hour away from Dublin) to get to Liz's where I will ...
Dublin and Gory
... did not stay the night with us at the hostel we met up with her also.
We left for Gory at night. To meet with Iona's mom. Had dinner at her house and stayed for the night.
When we got up: Dan, Iona, Bodhi and Iona's Mom (Liz) and myself went
for a walk. In a woods near her house. We saw a waterfall and a "swing
set"
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Arklow Bound
... in Stilorgan on our way to ARKLOW, Co Wicklow. We made straight for Seabank and Y&H's country house. The fresh air, cows, horses prancing around and a superb outlook over the Arklow Bar and Irish Sea is very pleasant. The 7 wind turbines inshore make little trouble to the view.
The updated irrigation system is ...
Guinness is good at the end of the day
... ship fitted out to transport the Irish to Canada and the US during the potato famine, and for the return trips it carried a few First Class passengers and they pulled out the bunks etc from the steerage area and used it for cargo carriage. Your tickets to the exhibition represent a passenger on an actual voyage and you can find out what happened to them. New Ross was a port town since the 13th century, it’s at the end of a river leading straight to ...