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Ireland 2026 – Belfast, Part Three
April 23-25 Our plan for the last day in Belfast was to hit the highly rated Titanic Belfast in the morning and then take a Black Cab Tour in the afternoon. We caught a taxi to the museum, which opened in 2012 and is a monument to Belfast’s maritime heritage on the site of the […]
Ireland 2026 – Belfast, Part Two
April 23-25 Finished with lunch, we stopped for a moment to view the Grand Opera House across from us on Great Victoria Street, which was originally built in 1895, bombed and rebuilt in 1991, and bombed and rebuilt again in 1993. We moved on up the street to the corner at Howard Street where we […]
Ireland 2026 – Belfast, Part One
April 23-25 Today would be one of travel, with a four-hour drive to Belfast before us, then dropping the car off at Hertz at Belfast City Airport before getting a taxi to our Home in Belfast Hosted by Joseph, our Airbnb for three nights at a cost of $353.41, a relative bargain as far as […]
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 […]
Ireland 2026 – Kilkenny, Part Four
April 8 – 10 Finished with our snack, which cost 14.40 Euros ($17) we hit the reception desk and paid 34 Euros ($40) for the tour for the two of us. This was an enjoyable tour, similar in nature to the one we took in Louisville at the Louisville Slugger Museum, where you are up […]
Ireland 2026 – Kilkenny, Part Three
April 8 – 10 Continuing down St. Kiernan Street we came to Alice Kyteler’s pub, made famous by the following bit of Kilkenny history. Back at the corner with the Butter Slip stairs is the site of the first known witch burning in the British Isles, in 1324. The tale involves Alice Kyteler, a Flemish […]
Ireland 2026 – Kilkenny
April 8 – 10 What we thought would be a straight forward day quickly turned out otherwise when I received a call from John at the Hertz Sales office just down the street that due to the gas price protests around Ireland (bands of individuals using their cars and trucks to block on and off […]
Europe 2025 – Home and Recap
May 28 – 29 We filled up at breakfast the next morning and knowing we might not eat again until later that day, made some sandwiches to bring with us, thinking we would eat them during the two-hour bus ride to Barcelona. We checked out of the hotel and walked the half mile or so […]
Europe 2025 – Girona, Part Two
May 19 – 21 As we paused on the Eiffel Bridge, we were able to fully enjoy that stretch of the river known for its Colored Houses. The river does more than split Girona in two, lining its banks are the famous-colored houses, stacked in ochres, pinks, yellows, and reds, their reflections doubling the spectacle […]
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