County Mayo Vacations, County Mayo Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

After a good Irish breakfast courtesy of my mum we jumped in the car and hit the road. I usually have a loop that I do around South West Mayo and into Connemara, back into Galway city and the return to base. On this day beacuse it was high summer and the day was long and I somehow managed to get on the road early I deviated a little, but it's alway worth deviating especially on a fine day. The first town we hit was Ballinrobe (I grew up on a farm so the nearest town is 6 miles/10km away...

A place that impressed me the most, beauty has no meaning here...for this place we needed to invent other word to describe this heaven.

When I travel to a new, unfamiliar place, every day is a grand adventure.  However, there is always that one village, that one piece of ground, that one craggy mountain that stays with me long after I return to my home.  On this trip, it was the famine houses and the furrowed potato fields.  Left behind long ago to decay and crumble into the ranks of the nameless and forgotten.  Now they are forever seared into my mind.Ireland ~~  A land of unforgettable beauty and ch...

Croagh (pronounced 'crow') Patrick is a holy mountain.  It's the site from which St. Patrick is supposed to have banished all the snakes from Ireland (and, thus, a mecca for snake-hatin' me!).  It's a completely treeless steep mountain on the peninsula north of Galway.  On the last Saturday of July, Catholic pilgrims climb it (the more penitent do it barefoot) en masse.  There's a small chapel up top.   Every since I heard about it, I wanted to climb. So, I did.&nbs...