Visiting Dublin – a last day around

This was our last full day from my Irish adventure. Breakfast at the Castlenock Hotel was wonderful as usual, and made us ready to head out even if the weather did not look promising at all.
Today we were planning to take the ferry to the Ireland’s Eye Island, to observe the sea birds. Well this [...]

From Birr to Dublin

Today we are heading back to Dublin, to complete our trip with a few more stops here and there around the capital of Ireland.
We decided to spend the night to the Ring Farmouse B&B, which was built on the place of a former castle. An aerial view shows it being in the middle of a [...]

From Galway to Birr

Today we will start to return slowly to Dublin, of course with a few stops on the way.
The Ashbrook Lodge turned out to be nice, even if we had to share the bathroom with my friend Gerry. The host was nice and she talked so fast that I had a tough time understanding her.
On the [...]

Galway and beyond

Another late morning start. The irish breakfast was wonderful as usual, but our host seemed quite confused: my friend received another name, and more surprising is that she did not know what was the capital of Romania. And even if she was offered the opportunity to visit Romania for a wedding, she decided on Portugal [...]