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The past few days cannot be described in words, but I’ll do my best.
Green rolling hills. Breathtaking mountain views. The Atlantic Ocean. Small little towns where the streets are so small you can barely walk down them in a pair. Pubs as far as the eye can see.
We set out on Thursday for Killarney, about a three-hour drive. We stayed in an inn that was on the top of a pub — as many of the hotels in town were. We had a grand first evening, a nice dinner and then to bed (after all, Keith and I had stayed up until 2:30 the previous morning to watch the Bruins-Habs game).
It was Friday I’ll never forget.
We left Killarney to travel toward Dingle. A trip that lasted about an hour-and-a-half. For the majority of that trip, I sat in the car with the mountains on my right and the Atlantic Ocean on my left. Pure heaven. I’ve never seen so many sheep in fields in my life! (In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a sheep before!)
Dingle was a great day trip. We spent the day wandering the town under the sun (it was about 25 degrees out). I couldn’t have asked for a better day.
I also finally got to try my first Irish Tim Hortons coffee (a request from my mother). It cost about $2 for a medium and is instant coffee. However, they do have sleeves for their cups which are Tim Hortons-made, so maybe that means it’s just about time that we get them back home.
On the way back to Killarney, we stopped at the beach where we frolicked in the ocean for a little while. It was a really cool feeling to be splashing around in the northern Atlantic on the western Irish coast thinking about the last time my feet were i this ocean and how far away Florida is from where I am right now.
After arriving back in Killarney, we had a great Italian dinner (yes, Italian), before spending the night playing cards in anticipation for the big card tournament to come Saturday night.
Like I said, words are hard to come by to describe how my day was, so here’s a photo slideshow of my travels. Click on the plus sign (and then on click to read more) for more about that photo.
