Our final day in Ireland, the flight to Boston, and a few days with Allie including her birthday Wednesday, Oct 2 – To Dublin We slept in a bit later than usual, had a relaxed breakfast then waited until 11am when our driver Jason arrived to take us to Dublin. Jason was a strappingly tall …
Galway (Connemara, Kylemore Abbey) Breakfast at the Victoria was OK, a full Irish but one could pick and choose what one wanted. Like the hotel itself, not luxurious but functional. We met Michael for an early 8:30am start on a much calmer day. This was our last day with Michael which automatically made things a …
Killarney (Killarney House, afternoon tea) I specifically planned for a day off from our vacation this vacation, and this was the day. I wanted to have a low key day to rest, catch up on notes and reading (and laundry) and just kind of take it easy in an interesting place. Killarney seemed to be …
To Galway (Bunratty Castle, Cliffs of Moher, The Burren) We checked out of the Ross and met Michael on this rainy and windy Sunday morning. With the weather poor and the forecast uncertain, Michael aborted the ferry across the River Shannon that we were due to take, so we drove highways toward Limerick. Along the …
Killarney (Dingle Peninsula) Michael told us that Walter, the owner of Walter’s Way Tours, wanted to meet us while we were in Killarney. They arranged for us to get together at 9am for a cuppa (actually a Diet Coke for me) at a cafe down the street from our hotel. Walter turned out to be …
Killarney (Ross Castle, Muckross House) This was a day in Killarney without Michael. Walter’s Way had arranged a guided horse carriage tour of Killarney National Park in the morning and an evening show by the Celtic Steps Irish dancing and music revue. For the rest of the day we were on our own. The top …
Killarney (Ring of Kerry) The breakfast at the Agadoe Heights Hotel was described as “sumptuous” but after the previous evening’s dinner we had our doubts. We went down and were happy to find a very nice buffet of continental items including fresh honey from a slice of honeycomb. We waited quite a long while for …
Kinsale to Killarney The Perryville House had a very nice breakfast room and a menu from which to order. I started with a mix of homemade granola and yogurt with homemade honey on top. Barb went with porridge again. For main breakfast, Barb had eggs Benedict while I chose a pan grilled fish, possibly a …
Kilkenny to Kinsale (Kilkenny Castle, Rock of Cashel, Cobh) Our breakfast buffet at the Rivercourt Hotel was a little sketchy — no one would seat us for a while and it was a while before other customers showed up. Also, who puts out a whole salver of fried eggs which then got lukewarm and hard? …
Dublin to Kilkenny (Newgrange, Glendalough) We enjoyed a final breakfast in Dublin though we had trouble opening our safe which did not respond to our code. The housekeeping person was able to use a master code to free up our passports and we made it downstairs by 9am to meet our Walter’s Way driver, Michael …