HIKING IN COUNTY WICKLOW After yesterday’s history-filled outing we decided our brains were too full for any more of THAT today. Instead we chose to take ourselves down into the Wicklow Mountains to do some hiking and just enjoy the glorious weather Ireland turned on for us. We […]
UNEARTHING IRELAND’S ANCIENT HISTORY We got a taste for the history of Ireland yesterday at the National Museum here in Dublin. Wanting learn more we set out today to explore the Boyne Valley, arguably Ireland’s most important historical region. This rich alluvial plain just north of Dublin was […]
DELVING INTO DUBLIN’S HISTORY There’s no shortage of history in this 1,000 year old town. From prehistoric Gaelic settlement, to Viking town, Norman stronghold, and English Colonial capital, Dublin has had many incarnations. Today we set about exploring a bit of the capital’s history, and discovered along the […]
DUBLIN’S A VERY LIVEABLE CITY Welcome to Dublin blog fans! This city of 1.2 million is the thriving commercial, political and economic hub of The Republic of Ireland; it’s also our home base for the next few days. We got here around lunch time and spent our afternoon […]
MOUNTAINS, VALLEYS, LOUGHS, RUINS & CASTLES OF CONNEMARA Connemara is a district in the northern part of County Galway. The landscape there is a mix of peat bogs, starkly empty valleys, deep black loughs (i.e. lakes), and glacier-carved mountains. The name Connemara comes for the Gaelic for “inlets […]
Wandering Soles 