Monthly Archives: August 2026
Ireland 2026 – Kenmare, Part Two
April 13 – 14 After breakfast I popped into Maison Gourmet, the nearby shop, to pick us up a couple of sandwiches for lunch later in the day. We then set out for our drive along the Ring of Kerry, a hugely popular route for tourists to enjoy, akin to the northern coasts of California […]
Ireland 2026 – Kenmare, Part One
April 13 – 14 As mentioned in the prior post, our drive to Kenmare would be another relatively short one and so we stopped about an hour in at Muckross House, located on the Muckross Peninsula between Muckross Lake and Lough Leane, two of the lakes of Killarney. In 1932 it was presented by William […]
Ireland 2026 – Kinsale, Part Two
April 11 – 12 As mentioned in an earlier post, Kinsale is a small town and so, except for a couple of planned outings, we’d not have a lot to see or do. We started in the morning with a delightful tour with Don & Barry’s Kinsale Historic Stroll. Barry himself met us and gave […]
Ireland 2026 – Kinsale, Part One
April 11 – 12 Our drive to Kinsale, like most that we would now encounter, was just 2 and a half hours so we opted to make a stop in Cobh to visit the Titanic Experience there. Another cold, windy, and drizzling day, we again encountered trucks and cars blockading motorway on and off ramps […]
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