Showing posts with label Connemara. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Connemara. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Cousins in Connemara

We departed Dingle and headed up the West coast for a night in Galway and my favorite drive in Ireland, the Connemara Loop. Each and every time I drive around Connemara, I fall deeper in love with it. It's bogs and loughs and cliffs are utterly breathtaking in any weather conditions and any time of year.

Galway






Ashford Castle 











More babies! 




Lough Corrib & Kylemore Abbey












And a night in Westport






Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Ireland Natural Wonders...it's not all about Moher


Moher, Moher, Moher



Non-stop on Irish tv has been this delightful advertisement by 7up for their 7 natural wonders of the world campaign. Ireland's nominee is the Cliffs of Moher, a beautiful set of cliffs facing the Atlantic Ocean.



Well, as wonderful as the cliffs are, Ireland is fully of natural beauty from glacial lake valleys to volcanic columns on the Giants Causeway to large bogs (scary!) to waterfalls just about everywhere you look.

Here's just a few of the natural wonders my parents and I visited last month.

Dingle Peninsula

Glendalough


Giants Causeway




Connemara: Bogs and Lakes


Monday, August 10, 2009

Driving my parents around Ireland...literally around!


Since I was the experienced left-hand-side-of-the-road driver, and by experienced I mean had done it one day before, I was nominated to be the driver in our little adventure around Ireland. We started out our little jam-packed tour by heading West for a few days of golf for the gents and sightseeing for the ladies. After they'd had their fill of knee-high rough, we abandoned golf for a few days, and headed North, taking in Connemara, County, Mayo, and eventually on to Northern Ireland. In Northern Ireland we visited Giants Causeway, then traveled the coastal road all the way around past Belfast then down to County Cavan where Dad & I visited the birthplace and church of our ancestors from Ireland and some cousins we have that are really not that far removed. After all that, we crashed in Dublin for a night of Temple Bar fun, then it was off to the South. Another few rounds of golf down in County Cork and then Richard & I bid adieu to the parents and let them explore County Kerry on their own. It was a fun-filled, golf-filled, virus-filled, sight-seeing-filled adventure. Over the next few days...hopefully not weeks...I will post pictures and details of the trip.