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 […]
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 […]
THE BARRENS OF THE BURREN & THE MAGNIFICENT CLIFFS OF MOHER Black and sheer, the Cliffs of Moher are formidable. Instantly recognisable, these 200m high precipices are iconically Irish and every year a million tourists visit the wind-swept western coast of this island to admire their rugged beauty. […]
DEERLY BELOVED KILLARNEY NATIONAL PARK Wild deer still roam the hills and fields around Killarney and today we got to join them! We’re in the town of Killarney, just outside the national park of the same name. This will be out home base for the next 4 days, […]
Wandering Soles 