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In Co. Kerry
... at the time so we left. Later we went to another freinds house near Ballymakery. They were not home but we met one of the three sons. We then left for Dingle for Sharon;s. We met her doughter Lunisa. We watched children,s shows with her. then we had a lighter then expected dinner and went to bed.
The second day Aaron and I went and spent time in Dingle. We went to an Aquarium with Lunisa, We ended up going though the Aqarium 3 ...
Rain and Mountains
... the National Park for a few hours. It may have rained, and we all may have frozen a little bit, but I think it was worth it. From where ever you were in Killarney, you could see the mountains, which were covered in snow. The park had some wild animals, some streams, and a castle at the end of our journey. Everything, to me, ...
A balanced breakfast
... you can sound it out and be reasonably close to the correct pronunciation. But since Irish doesn't come from Latin, it's a different animal altogether. Before coming to Ireland, I made myself an Irish playlist for my iPod that I would listen to on the bus. One song is called “Tochailt uaighe go roluath.” I guarantee that however you're pronouncing that right now, it is completely wrong. (By the way, it means roughly “digging myself an early grave.”) There's a ...
635 Steps to the Top of the World
... for five hundred years but changes in Ireland and the rest of Europe led them to go to the mainland
The guides stay on the island for two weeks and then go home for one. They have small cabins with no running water and jump into the frigid ocean to clean up. This is one part of the job I would not enjoy!
We explored the monestary for a while and made the trek down together and I was nervous!! The stairs are simply flat stones ...
Dingle Peninsula
... she didn't hear the bell. I said I was Sheila Dutton and she said that my name rang a bell and would go to see which room we were to be in. She was very friendly and came back to take us upstairs to our room. We asked where we could get a bite to eat because we had had a wonderful lunch and were not very hungry and she recommended the Old Dingle Hotel and O'Flaherty's ...