Irish Road Trip ... Part 2

Trip Start Mar 05, 2008
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Trip End Jan 11, 2009


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Flag of Ireland  , County Clare,
Thursday, January 8, 2009

After another Irish cooked breakfast, we headed off towards the Killarney National Park. Only a couple of Kms in, we found Muckross House - an old home built in 1643. But it was more like a castle. It was set up as it would have been in the 1860s & it was really good. The family that lived there even had a visit from Queen Victoria - they planned & prepared for five years ... and she was there for two days!!!! (It also set the family on their way to bankruptcy!)

After the tour of Muckross House we continued on through the National Park & around the road known as the Ring of Kerry. There were some nice views along the way and it took about 3 hours to reach Tarbert. Here we put the car on the ferry, getting off about 20min later at Killimer. From here we drove another hour north to a town called Doolin.

We found ourselves a B&B, then went down to the local pub for dinner. After a big feed, we headed back to our digs and settled in for the night.

Next morning we headed out to see the Cliffs of Moher. It was a little chilly, but the view was really good. From there we drove across to Clonmacnoise, an old monastic sight. It was quite interesting. We even saw the tomb of St Kairan, the guy who started a lot of the monasteries in Ireland.

Our last stop for the night was at Navan - to find ourselves a B&B. Once that was done, we popped out for a quick bite to eat, then back to the B&B for an early night (that turned into a late night watching terrible tv!)

We were up early next morning to squeeze in one last visit before returning the car to Dublin. We paid a visit to a place called Bru Na Boinne. It's the area that houses some of the largest passage tomb burial sights in the world. We did a tour of Newgrange - a massive passage tomb that was built 500 years before the pyramids ... but with the knowhow to not let a single drop of rain enter the tomb for over 5000 years!

After a great visit - Ian & I were the only ones on our tour - we made the hour drive back to Dublin.
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thewest
thewest on Jan 8, 2009 at 12:31PM

nice views
Are you two determined to make the rest of us taxpaying workers even more depressed that we aren't living your life. The latest lot of photos are some of your best, keep up the good work. The coast line looks amazing, and I love the locals (they look very warm, I'm sure that if you were a Jedi trapped in a snow storm they might come in handy).
May the force be with you both.

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