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Day Four – Castles and Tombs
... into the long hallway to get to the chamber at the back. The tour guide explained how the sun would shine into the chamber for a few days around the shortest day of the year. There is a lottery to get tickets to be in there during the sun rise. However, you are not guaranteed that the weather would cooperate. Since we were not going to get that chance, it was simulated with a 100 watt light bulb. I was scared that ...
Capetonian...Tarmonbarry to Leitrim.
... the oven for lunch,what can i say,they were different and tasty.
We branched off close to Hartley Bridge and arrived in Leitrim at 1715 hrs.safe and sound.
We were met by an official that Hugh had phoned as he was concerned that he might have to move the boat after 5 days.
There is a time limit on how long you can leave a boat in the one spot on the Shannon waterways.
It was ...
Tidy Trim
I'm serious. There were signs everywhere proclaiming Trim as the tidiest town in all of Ireland. There was even a contest and they only came in second.
We stopped off at Trim Castle, which might be recognizable to fans of Braveheart, because apparently it was (at least partially) filmed there. So yes, we have an Irish castle and ...
Churchy Clonmacnoise
Today we went to Clonmacnoise. Like Glendalough, it was an old monastic settlement that ended up attracting a lot of monk followers. Unlike Glendalough, it was raided soooooooooo many times, by vikings, Irishmen, Englishmen... anyone who happened to be in the area. Clonmacnoise used to be a place where the monks were very good at crafts, including gold and silverworking, but mostly drawing and ...
Vanquishing Vikings
... but I could be leaping to conclusions.
We got in and had lunch, then we got on a VIKING CRUISE!!! And went sailing up and down the Shannon River up to a lake called Lough Ree. We learned all kinds of stuff about birdwatching and migration and wetlands. And also about how the vikings settled the ages and ages ago. This lake, Lough Ree, has a bunch of tiny islands (like in ...
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