The Arches Country House Donegal

What a nasty morning! The wind was blowing, not quite howling, and the rain was beating against the windows as we ate Marian’s wonderful breakfast. We always have brown bread and toast in addition to the bacon and eggs, but today, we also had scones warm from the oven. They were the best scones I’ve had, and when I told Marian, she gave me a plastic bag and told me to take some with us. They were a tasty snack later.

Today was our day ...

... pretty little town.
Once back on the main road, we found the Creevykeel Court Tomb, which was built in
3,000 B.C. and is one of the finest court tombs in Ireland. We prowled around it for a while, then headed north to County Donegal.
We had hoped to stop in Beleek to see the porcelain factory, but because it was Sunday, everything was closed. We continued into Donegal Town and went to the tourist information center. We got info on some b ...

Our first road trip this summer took us to the outskirts of Fermanagh to a little village called Kesh. We met up with my dear old friend Philip who took us to the pier to see the lough close up. Then it was onto the view point to see out across the lough and after that we went to a little forest park with some castle ruins. A very picturesque day indeed.

... motorhome down at the dock and he said staying there was one of his favourite spots, so we did too. There were about seven motorhomes around us – quite a little community.
Behind us was the cemetery and a ruined abbey overlooking the bay – very picturesque with the cloudy sunset sky. Donegal is a beautiful little tourist town, at its best at this time of year. It would be nice to spend a bit more time here. Next time?

... castle" is really a manor house built to look like a castle but an interesting tour. The guide was interested in the fact that we were from Texas as some former owners of the place were also from West Texas. The gardens were just lovely and we could have spent more time there but the day was getting old.

Dinner in Donegal Town at the Harbor, and then back to our lovely home away from home on the shores of Lough Eske.

... owned business with some beautiful wares. They don't do tours but the gent working in the front showed us how he makes the different flowers and then his wife, who incidentally does all the painting (wonder if she had to audition her painting skills to be allowed to marry into the family?) helped us with some purchases.

In Sligo we stopped for lunch at Davis ...

... and peppermint scented bath, and with Kip, enjoyed looking at photos we’d taken that he’d uploaded to the laptop. The bed was delightfully comfy, with a truly great down comforter and pillows everywhere! It was hard to leave such a comfy bed and beautiful place, but we had sights to see and roads to get lost on, so off we went!

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... bus for the return 4 hour journey to Dublin, which was again...uneventful Yesterday was Halloween and me and a few friends managed to score some tickets to a party for a new radio station in town (well, it wasn't really new, it was just pirated before and had been off the air for a few years before finally being granted a license to be on the air legally!) There were some really good bands, free drink and video games and such. It was really a good time. Not too many people in ...

... flocks of sheep skittering along the roads.

By evening we had reached Letterkenny, a stone’s throw away from the border with Northern Ireland, and were soon in the midst of our now well established pattern of finding a B&B for the night before heading into the town centre in search of a reasonably-priced pub dinner.

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!