Innisfree Hotel Sligo

... so we sampled the late night food joints along our journey. We first stopped and had kebaps at a great place outside of the Globe bar called Sultans. Then started our walk towards O’Connell Street and stopped at a Londis and grabbed a coffee. We had to leave there though because Mel started someone on fire! I should qualify it though, he told her to do it and grabbed her hand and they both started him on fire. He didn’t think his wet newspaper would start but she found ...

Our dear friend Helen from Kelowna, BC came to visit us…. I believe it was the week we were finishing school. So it was the end of May.

Just before she came, we got a new little car. Well, its not new, but it was for us. After a year of hitching around Ireland and using the worst public transport system I've ever come across, we thought it was about time to find some wheels. So it was good timing when Helen came, cause we were just ...

... mistress of the house threw the menu down to the staff from a balcony above so that she did not have to step foot into the kitchen....wow...now i know how im going to remodel the kitchen,,,,all for now please read and tell your friends about this great travel blog so we can get some advertisers to sponsor for clothes for our poor shoeless father.....love you all....Sister Carolyn.

Nothing from Sister Leigh tonight - he's in bed in his really dirty clothes.

... a bit!) and then on to Giants Causway, which is near Bushmill in County Antrim. It's basically a volcanic rock formation that happened thousands of years ago causing 40,000 hexagonal stepping stones. We got there at 10am and had until 12pm to explore, we watched a short video on the area narrated by Ewan McGregor and the hopped onto the shuttle bus down.
It was windy, rainy and slippery but we climbed up the rock formation and ...

... now we are staying in a pretty nice hotel and will be here for a couple nights thankfully.
In other news, Ireland is expensive as hell, a beer of Carlsburgh I paid 4 euro 40 for, do the conversion and thats over 5 dollars for a pint of beer, ouch... And ashley blew up my power converter with her hair dryer today and we have to go buy another one tomorrow, geee thanks.
Tomorrow we are taking a trip to ...

Meteo: pioggerella

Saremmo rimasti a Clifden, ma non c'era posto. Andiamo a Sligo, tappa intermedia per il trasferimento nell'Ulster.
Ci fermiamo alla Kylemore Abbey, bellissima villa sul lago. Scattiamo qualche foto senza entrare, piove. Percorriamo il tratto fra Leenane e Cong, consigliato dalla nostra guida per una gita in bicicletta. Facciamo molte foto, il paesaggio invita. A Cong consumiamo un pasto frugale, c'è un bel parco sul lago. Facciamo un ...

... it out to Tottenham Hale where there was still delays but I had given myself plenty of time. I bought some lunch and before long the train had arrived. At the airport I checked in and bought the Dublin LP - my flight was delayed so I amused myself with my new book.! We made it into Dublin just after 5.30pm and by the time I cleared customs and made my way out it was just after 6pm - not enough time the get the shuttle bus ...

... where he purchased a Shophouse across from the now general store on the main street in Drumkeeran for 425 pounds... He lived in the top half and rented the bottom half to a Pharmacist that visited twice a week. The Shop, April 2007: I learned the other day that the Kellys did not attend the St. Brigid's church in the Killargue main town, rather the family church was St. Brigid's in the townland of Tawnylea, it is now called Creevelea (pronounced ...

... afternoon on the back roads of County Donegal – with the extra degree of uncertainty of navigating by road signs only in Irish. It was certainly very enjoyable traversing across Ireland’s far north-western tip with its wild beaches, recently harvested peat stacked in long, black rows in the green fields and the ...

Co Donegal

Killibeg to Donegal
Gotta love this city!

This loop, from Ballintoy to Malin Head and down to Killibeg then Donegal was a tough ~ 175 miles ~

Peace agreement was not observed between political parties, therefore, curfew is mandatory and we have to stay in house. That sucks!