Ireland Travel Blogs - Page 7

Much love to Scott for partying and staying up all night with me from 9pm to 9am in Dublin. Second time there and just as crazy as last. Sadly no falling out of bunk beds this time.This 11 hour flight back to SF is going to be ruffffffff.

On Wednesday of our vacation, we went out to the Ventry area and did some horseback riding!! Yippee! We did this at Long's Horseriding and Trekking Centre and we had a total blast!! http://www.longsriding.com/ I, of course, was scared to death, but the rest of my family took to riding li…

Wow, so Dublin was... hectic but we are now in Kilkenny, a beautiful town just south west of Dublin. It has been raining for most of the trip but the clouds finally broke today and it is gorgeous outside! Yesterday we drove from Dublin to Kilkenny, making stops at Glendolaugh. The original plan was…

After a 24 hour flight from Sydney, I arrived in Cork to be met by Johnny, Anne Marie, JT and their friend Ross. Ross is an old friend from when the Tillers lived in Oman and was a host with the most driving us all around Corks country and coast. So beautiful. Drove up to a cliff where a local ligh…

Getting to the Airport It was an early start, getting the train from my hometown on Brighton direct to Gatwick… I had walked the 20 minutes from my house to the station with Steve my boyfriend in the dark and had met the train pulling in as the sun beamed through the part glassed roof of station…

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.

We traveled via Aer Lingus to Dublin, Ireland where we are currently waiting for our plane to leave for its final destination: Shannon. Already I love the Irish brogue and the landscape. Flying into Ireland as the sun was rising gave me a picturesque view of the fields and set communities that glim…

Its Saturday the 6th of September, nine days before I head off.  I'm at home packing up my house.  I've tenants moving in for a year while I'm away so packing all my gear away in boxes to ship it over to my parents who are doing me a huge favour by storing it all for me.  It feels re…

No voy a escribir mucho en estos momentos, poruqe estoy medio cansado, lo que si, quiero terminar de subir las fotos de mi viaje por irlanda.... Dublin es una ciudad grande, media sucia y maloliente. Con muchos pubs, zonas agradables y zonas que parecería que no se puede ir caminando. No fue lo q…

With the legendary Bill dead & buried and the enigmatic Bob nicely wrapped up and sitting in a little box on my shelf, I found myself wondering, "what's next? Should there be another?".... Eventually I decided why the hell not,  the challenge was to bring a bulb to every country I visit. …

The town of Falcarragh has as many faces as it has names! On some maps it shows up as 'Crossroads' deriving from its Irish language name Na Croisbhealaí but older maps refer to it as Robinson's Town, but its now listed as An Fál Carrach in Gaelic meaning the long or rough hedge. A town of around …

22 October 2006:   The last day had arrived. It was time to go back home. We didn’t see enough so we really have to come back. I can recommend this city, but maybe it’s better to go in summer. With the sun it will be much better, for sure.  

To those who are fully aware of my lifestyle choice, it comes as a surprise to some that no matter how far afield I have journeyed so far, why would I choose to neglect places much closer to home such as Wales and the Republic of Ireland? Well, an attempt to remedy that perception in no small measu…

Dublin is a quite nice place! It's pretty big, but fortunately doesn't seem to be so. It looks like a good place to live. This is our second stay in the town. We came from Derrylin in the early morning, went to the airport, left the luggage and then went back to the city for a great day. We visited…

The next day, we set out for another joyride around Ireland. The first was to see a nearby resort and the second was to see some more ruins. I decided to miss the first half, hence not too many shots from Maureen on that one. And decided to meet the group for the second half. Sorry I can not seem t…