2024-2 – England and Ireland

We arrived at our hotel in the heart of Dublin late in the evening after our afternoon at Newgrange. No time for sightseeing, just a dinner at a nearby pub, enjoying a Guinness and a football game (soccer to we

We left Galway by bus, but stopped to pick up a rental car at Dublin Airport so that we could go to visit the Neolithic sites of Newgrange, Knowth, and Dowth, collectively known as Brú na Bóinne. One of just

Another morning’s travel brought us to the city of Galway in the northwest of Ireland (but not Northern Ireland). Galway was immediately appealing as we walked down to our hotel through the Saturday market, via pedestrianized streets filled with buskers.

From Killarney to Cork is less than 100 kilometres, but that takes you across the island from the west coast to the east. So, after jumping on a bus in the morning, less than two hours later we were in

While in County Kerry, we paid a visit to the Kissane Sheep Farm to watch a demonstration of the sheep herding skills of Irish border collies. These amazing dogs can be trained to obey commands by voice or whistle to

We began our visit to the Republic of Ireland by flying directly to the west coast to the tiny tourist town of Killarney. Killarney has been famous as an Irish visitors’ Mecca since Victorian times; the town of just 15,000

We arrived in England to be welcomed by typical English weather for the spring; kind of chilly, 13 degrees and drizzling, but only off and on. In fact, by the weekend it was beautiful – sunny and 15. Salisbury is