Knock House
Ballyhaunis Road Knock, County Mayo, Western Ireland, Ireland
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What the Cong?!
... s Irish Catholic background that makes me feel intense guilt here as we wander about the religious relics and nuns scurrying about looking like they could take flight ala the Flying Nun in this windy weather. They would surely approve of our night living like monks in Cong - no alcohol, no facebook, no modern facilities. Certainly we worshiped in front of our own version of an altar - tv playing Two and a Half Men. Bless the ...
Ronan & Barba's Big Day!
... took pics of the wedding party, family, and friends. The view of the castle and the lake was breathtaking!
The Dinner bell rang around 5:30 pm and everyone began to make their way to the Grand Ballroom. My favorite part of the night was walking down the hall towards the ballroom. The hall was lit by only candles and it was absolutely beautiful. We were seated at Table 13 with Ciaran and Cormac. As we waited for Mr. and ...
I'm a bog hopper!
... is a cross on the spot where we went bog hopping memorializing these people. Nowadays, a “famine walk” from Doo Lough to Louisburgh is held to raise money to send to starving people in Africa.
We stopped at the National Famine Memorial in Murrisk. It's a bronze sculpture of a coffin ship, and the figures on it are skeletons swirling around the ship's masts. There is a sister sculpture in New York that depicts skeletons walking down a ramp off of a ...
Ecolodge
... material and used for many retreats and fellow hostelers. The Gyreum was super unique, and even more so for the fact that we had the whole place to ourselves. We watched the sun set from the circular second floor seating area that evening.
It was here that Robyn battled the largest spider we'd seen in Ireland and where we shrieked our way through a very traumatizing spider execution via the kitchen sink drain.
Feeling a little greener,
Robyn and ...
We Won't Get Lost Right?
... food? I do now. They'd make pancakes to use up the dairy products before giving it all up for lent.
We made it to Cong around 4pm and my first order of business was buy anti-nausea meds (in Ireland, you have to buy meds at a pharmacy... a completely separate store. They're much stricter with over the counter meds than we are). It's a very small village in the middle of nowhere.. not quite as much the middle of ...



