Blogs from County Kerry, Ireland, Europe - page 30

The Gap of Dunloe Killarney National Park, Ireland The Gap of Dunloe is our destination today and rather than take a tour, we opted to bike to the Reen Pier and have the boat transport us and the bikes across the three lakes of Killarney: the Lough Leane, the Muckross Lake, and the Upper Lake... to Lord Brandon's Cottage. As we stood on the pier waiting (Ireland time is different from real time!) we saw some Americans..."Hey where are you from?" we asked. The response was "PITTSBURGH"! "No way!" we said, "We live in Shaler", they lived in McCandles the next township. Nice folks on their honeymoon. Small world! Well after an hour and half in the boat, we arrived at Lord Brandon's Cottage and began biking toward the Gap of Dunloe. We are at ... read more

Hey folks, Sorry we are having issue with my laptop as well as trying to find places where you can get free wireless internet. We are presently in a internet cafe (dorks) in Kilarney blogging. We will have some more pictures up soon now that we figured out how to transfer them from the camera to the Mac. It was easier than we thought. Any ways we will be sorting thru pics and video later this week and reposting and reediting some of the blogs. We know they are rough but at least its something. Hope you all are well and well have several pints for you :) we are staying in a reccommended place tonight and tomorrow and touring the gap of dunloe. best thing is mrs. oconnell the owner of the b and b ... read more

Day 4 Great breakfast- a switchup from the traditional irish breakfast- scrambled eggs and no puddings- by reuquest! No bicycles to hire on Sundays, even though we passed by the places 3 times. There was a local lady renting them, but with the rain and the poor conditions of the bikes themselves we decided to pass and do the drive instead. Walked for about 2 hours, St marys Church, trinity tree Tourist board After 2 hour of searching for bike we decided to drive it. We got lost on purpose to find the art gallery of Louis ________, where we received 2 vases from as wedding gifts from ryan’s aunt cindy. Sheeps Ass- a sheep was scratching his behind on a barbed wire fence- ouch! Wish I had my camera out for this one because of ... read more

Negotiated a bus from Heathrow to Gatwick for my flight to Dublin. I wasn't scheduled to leave until 9pm-ish and I arrived at Gatwick at around 3pm. I inquired at the service desk whether it might be possible to be put on standby and catch an earlier flight. The reply was "Sorry, Ryanair don't do Stand-by, however, if you wanted to book a separate ticket for an earlier flight it will cost you ............................121 Pounds" "Ahh thanks, but no thanks" was my reply. Ryanair also have a policy of charging 5.5quid for every kilo that your luggage is over 15kg. Now I knew that my backpack was at least over 20kg so I put my brain to work to alleviate the problem. Solution = Chuck the heavy non-essential stuff like washing powder etc and wear as ... read more

Yes please! Ok, so we headed over to Kilkenny after Dublin and rode on our first train, which was amazing. I am now in love with train rides; they are comfy and you have a table to play cards on! So Kilkenny is a really Irish town that it is very small with a bad ass castle. We did a tour of this castle (after taking a tour of the castle grounds, which we both took the opportunity to pee on our first castle!) and during this tour we came upon a huge marble table. Whilst Dillon was sitting upon this table the guide goes on to tell the group that it was used to lay the dead bodies on during the wake. So he was embarassed and stood up quickly, then proceeded to exclaim, ''Shit!'', ... read more