Yeats Country Sligo

... so we sampled the late night food joints along our journey. We first stopped and had kebaps at a great place outside of the Globe bar called Sultans. Then started our walk towards O’Connell Street and stopped at a Londis and grabbed a coffee. We had to leave there though because Mel started someone on fire! I should qualify it though, he told her to do it and grabbed her hand and they both started him on fire. He didn’t think his wet newspaper would start but she found ...

Our dear friend Helen from Kelowna, BC came to visit us&#8230;. I believe it was the week we were finishing school. So it was the end of May.<br><br>Just before she came, we got a new little car. Well, its not new, but it was for us. After a year of hitching around Ireland and using the worst public transport system I've ever come across, we thought it was about time to find some wheels. So it was good timing when Helen came, cause we were just ...

Guess who's is here??? The positive thinker...ME..sister Katie...I get clean clothes tonight..although I can honestly say I wish it had been Dad's that had arrived.. I can wear Care's clothes and he looks funny in them.<br><br>Great time today...I am definitely going to look into being adopted by the Irish..Love THEM.<br><br>Got to hear Irish music and see the countryside. Eating an drinking our way...just like the Irish have done for years..all 3 sisters tried ...

Woke up this morning feeling not so bouncy after staying up too late to watch the moofie. Had a quick shower, got the bags out in time and went to a world class breakfast. Too bad I didn't really feel in the mood or care. All I feel like we do is eat and sit on the bus on this tour and I am a bit sick of it!<br> Took off from Belfast and went through little towns with a quick toilet stop in some little fishing village (they are all ...

... now we are staying in a pretty nice hotel and will be here for a couple nights thankfully.<br> In other news, Ireland is expensive as hell, a beer of Carlsburgh I paid 4 euro 40 for, do the conversion and thats over 5 dollars for a pint of beer, ouch... And ashley blew up my power converter with her hair dryer today and we have to go buy another one tomorrow, geee thanks. <br> Tomorrow we are taking a trip to ...

... and arranging collections and deliveries; whingeing about the rain; obtaining a new passport and wading through paperwork and bureacracy to fill it with the required visas for my next journey; despairing at the howling winds; trying to figure out russian train timetables and plan a tight itinerary with them; wondering how summer could possibly be so chilly; dealing with ...

Meteo: pioggerella<br><br>Saremmo rimasti a Clifden, ma non c'era posto. Andiamo a Sligo, tappa intermedia per il trasferimento nell'Ulster.<br>Ci fermiamo alla Kylemore Abbey, bellissima villa sul lago. Scattiamo qualche foto senza entrare, piove. Percorriamo il tratto fra Leenane e Cong, consigliato dalla nostra guida per una gita in bicicletta. Facciamo molte foto, il paesaggio invita. A Cong consumiamo un pasto frugale, c'è un bel parco sul lago. Facciamo un ...

... the evening we went to a restaurant that was highly recommended by the B&B host. This wasn't exactly traditional Irish fare... more of a modern European cuisine. I had the chicken with field mushrooms and Dwayne had the same. It was very yummy, although the portions were much larger than most places in Ireland. Keeping with the tradition of not having food with music, we set out to the Harper's Bar to take in some Irish Jigs over a few pints.

... William Butler Yeats and a hot spot for musical pubs and trendy bars. After lunch and a walkabout in town we headed for the wilderness as it was a glorious day! We went to Lough (lake) Gill just outside of town where we soaked up some sun, hiked around some trails, and Meg took her fleece off for I think the second time in almost two months! (I took pictures for proof). Our accommodations are an ...

... flocks of sheep skittering along the roads. <br><br> By evening we had reached Letterkenny, a stone&#8217;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&amp;B for the night before heading into the town centre in search of a reasonably-priced pub dinner.