Kilford Arms Hotel Kilkenny

... man in the room has to come give you a birthday kiss on the cheek! It was so embarassing, but I have the interesting tale of being kissed my about 15-20 men old enough to be my grandfather. ha Anyways on my birthday I went to classes and David gave me a pretty gold chain because I had broken one my necklaces when I was over here. Then after class the girls helped me get ready and David took me out for a nice supper. It was good to eat ...

... she was invaluable to us.. but sometimes she did seem to falter just when we needed her the most!! Right in the middle of town! lol.<br><br>We stopped off in Kilkenny, oh and can I mention when you ask the GPS to take you to a place it will take you right to its centre.. Kilkenny was my first taste of a small street Irish city, with buses and lorries etc.. oh no... The other thing I did notice about driving in Ireland, don't expect to see too much of the ...

... was the only building we could not enter. The movie &#8220;Braveheart&#8221; contains several scenes filmed at Trim, including the storming of the barbican gate of the castle.<br><br>We left Trim for our drive to the seaside town of Bray south of Dublin. It took roughly 45 minutes to get there, and we parked along the beach. We found a pub that was serving lunch and took a much needed break for a while. After lunch we walked along the rocky beach for a while.<br><br>I convinced ...

... Carlow in Irish Experience and you will see some of those pictures on here. This first week and a half has flown by but I already feel like I have been here for awhile because we have meet so many new people and made quite a few friends. We got invited to a hurling match today but it was going to be kind of expensive to go so we turned it down. This coming weekend we are going to Galway. We ...

After finishing the Ring of Dingle we pointed the GPS to Killarney. On the way we were in need of a rest, bathroom and a pint. So we stopped at a very interesting place, Inch Beach. Ironically the beach is a 3 miles long crescent of sand. Must be the old Irish sense of humor in play. <br>The beach reminded me a little of Wildwood, without the boardwalk. There was a lot of sand to traverse before reaching the water's edge. <br>It was ...

... favolosi. Fra l'altro, c'e' un sentiero di 140 km circa (un'inezia...) che attraversa tutto il parco nazionale e passa anche da li, chissa', prima o poi. Questa sera siamo approdati a Kilkenny, citta' medievale davvero carina con case basse e colorate lungo una strada principale affollatissima di negozi e pub. Per chi ama la birra ed e' gia' stato in inghilterra, forse il nome di questo ...

... SHE SAID: Getting out of Dublin was nuts, figuring out what street to turn on, what side of the road to be on, how close you were to other cars on the narrow busy streets, and if you can make a left on a red light? The Irish see it as all their road and don't really mind the lane issue. At one point I thought we were going to return the rental car and consider the bus. However, Adam is a trooper and stuck with it. He was a ...

... a little carried away at times. But we digress.... After the Rock of Cashel we made our way to Kilkenny, which has a castle of its own and is another lovely place to visit. We stayed in a B&B for this, our last, night in Ireland and it was lovely. We walked about the town, poking in shops and pubs, and had a peaceful night without any idiots running up and down corridors and waking up the neighbourhood, thank you very much!

... been to and Amber and I had no interest in visiting, we then swiftly moved further inland and on to Kilkenny. <br><br>After finding a B&amp;B there for the night what we really needed was a local to take us under their wing and show us some Kilkenny craic for the evening, and that was where Shauna came in to the equation. I had met her while travelling in New Zealand nearly three years earlier, and after meeting her outside Kilkenny Castle she ...

... vacation season. While we hadn't experienced any difficulty in getting a room in Ireland up until that point, I had no desire to experience it then. So, we stuck with our plan to stay in Portlaoise. However, I agreed to cancel the reservation in Roscommon for the next night so that we could find somewhere else to go. <br><br>Still, we needed something to kill the time we had. Since Portlaoise was just a few miles away and it was only 5 p.m., I started ...