After leaving Adare we decided to head to Ennis. We were initially going to head up to Galway but the weather was really bad and seeing as we were flying out of Shannon airport it seemed silly to drive up and then have to double back. We found a hotel with vacancies that looked pretty decent and decided to check in. We went to the room that the ...

We landed in Shannon from NYC. Traveled north along the west coast and into Galway. Across the country to Nobber, County Meath where my family is from. Down to Dublin and stayed at a castle outside Dublin. Headed south towards Cork and traveled the coast along the Dingle and Kerry Pennisulas.

Thanks to Aer Lingus' cancelling our original 6:40 AM flight, we could sleep in a bit and make our way in a leisurely manner to Heathrow for the flight out. We'd heard that Aer Lingus had been having some financial troubles (there was a lot of talk while we were there of Ryanair's attempted hostile takeover of Aer Lingus) but it wasn't until we ...

We flew early morning from London to Shannon, Ireland. The flight was so cheap, like $20 bucks and what really struck me was how so many people seemed to just be commuting. Several had their golf clubs and no other luggage like it was just a day trip. Then in the airport they didn't have just souvenir stuff, it was like a little mini-mall with o...

Friday 14th July After work we headed to Yla's and collected the alcohol for the cruise! We then headed to the Clontarf Castle for a meal together with a few of the people coming on the cruise - Tone from Norway, Ilena from Finland, Gilles from France though living in Switzerland, Katja from Germany, Yla, Gillian and myself! The restaurant was l...

Mustard Seed at Echo Lodge Adare Limerick Dromoland Castle Clay Pigeon shooting Ennis dinner & pub

suzie and i have a strange and wonderful habit of only speaking to each other in accents--mostly irish, northern and southern (mostly northern, thanks to the coaching of stewart--affectionately called shtew in our new accents--a friend and colleage who is from the belfast area). it started while we were both teaching in budapest a couple of year...

I mentioned in previous entries how much I resented the amount of needless worrying I did before embarking on this trip. Heeding those warnings, I rid myself of anything that would (a) make me a target as far as jewellery was concerned and (b) cause difficulties if any form of ID was stolen. Hey! The light went on in Rio- I hadn't brought my dri...