Dingle Skellig Hotel

... blue waters of the Dingle Bay. Turning the last bend, we are on the outskirts of Dingle (An Daingean). Checking into the Dingle Skellig Hotel the receptionists greets us "failte go dti Ostan na Sceilge ata suite."  I reply "Go raibh maith ad" ...

... as wonderful as day one, only colder...much, much colder! We had a good night's sleep and a pleasant breakfast overlooking the Dingle Bay.  Thought we'd kicked the jet lag in the hiney, but shortly after breakfast settled in, my body called a ...

... and bright, late afternoon sunshine. Finally, around 7 p.m. (38 hours or so since we left Kansas), we pulled into the Dingle Skellig Hotel and Spa, situated directly upon the bay. (Yes - since you asked - we did inadvertantly take a slight detour through ...

... be playing. He was in Boulder last month for a concert. It should be a good time.   I tried to go out to skellig michael (that monistary on top of the rock in the middle of the ocean) today but the weather was too rough. Tomorrow looks ...

... The Dingle Peninsula that is. A wonderful 30 mile drive zigzagging and stopping to look over the ledges and take pictures of Skellig Michael of the western side of Ireland. (With the frozen morning and the light snow covered roads, the mountains ...

... , into going on his Ring of Kerry tour instead.  We had already seen half of the Ring, when we ventured off to climb Skellig Michael, but he was right... we really hadn't learned that much about the area while we were there.  How we'd managed ...

... 8211; 1 was that we would dine at the Spanish Restaurant that we could not get reservations to last night and 2 we would do Skellig islands tomorrow.  I just needed to call Sean ahead of time (the owner of the boat who would be sailing that ...

...  and goat festivals - boy, these Irish are gifted story tellers :) We drove along the Dingle Bay around lunchtime and stopped at a nice hotel for lunch (fish and chips of course) before driving through the picturesque and colorful fishing village at ...

... every so often to take in the sites and teach the lads how to skip stones on the water, Saffa style! We passed the Skellig Michael island just off the coastline. The place used to be a monastery since the 6th century and looks absolutely amazing and ...