Blogs from Killaloe, County Clare, Ireland, Europe

The focus for this couple of days in Dublin was chasing family history at the National Library, buying Irish sims for our phones and organising a rental car for the rest of our time in Ireland. The Irish sims were very simple. Have an unlocked phone, walk into a shop – we chose 3 this time because they had a good deal – buy the sim for 20 Euros, they fit it and walk out with all you can eat data and plenty of phone and text credit for a month or so. We had to produce a passport and hand over the cash. All done. The car was a little more interesting. Online you can only get prices on cars for about a month. Any longer and the web sites have a conniption. We needed ... read more