We just finished up our first 7 days on The Emerald Isle, and unbelievably we haven’t seen a drop of rain yet. Sadly, we had to say goodbye to our friends JM & Talia – who visited us in Berlin and then traveled with us through Ireland until this morning when they flew back to NY.
We arrived in Dublin on Monday evening, spent the day in the city on Tuesday, then rented a car and made our way south and west starting Wednesday. We stopped at the impressive Powerscourt Gardens and an ancient monastic ‘city’ at Glendalough in the Wicklow Mountains, stayed overnight in Kilkenny (right next to the Smithwick’s brewery!), and then made our way further west to the Dingle Peninsula (with a stop at the Rock of Cashel) on Thursday. We took a leisurely driving tour of the Peninsula on Friday, and spent the evening at a pub listening to ‘trad’ Irish music and getting some travel advice from a very nice (and very drunk) local fisherman. On Saturday we drove up to Galway, with stops at the Loop Head Lighthouse and cliffs (taller than the Cliffs of Moher, and no bus tours!) and The Burren. Meg and I are in Galway and environs for the next two days before we travel to Northern Ireland and then back to Dublin. We’ll send another postcard next week!