Around Ireland: More Galway

SPECIFICS Galway in County Galway is on Ireland’s west coast and sits on the River Corrib. With a population of around 83,000, it is the fourth largest city in the Republic of Ireland. It is a city of bridges and canals and strong breezes off the bay. One is never far from the honk of …

Around Ireland: Adare & Galway

After our tour of the Dingle Peninsula, we moved on to less dramatic sights. We had a short stop in Adare and then drove on to Galway (mostly divided highway) where we are for two nights. Friday was the first really rain day we have experienced on this trip. It was hard rain some of …

Around Ireland: Dingle Peninsula

WHAT Our itinerary stated that we would explore the Wild Atlantic Way including along the Dingle Peninsula and then out to Slea Head on one of the points. If we thought that the interior roads we’d been on were narrow, the Slea Head road was known to be even narrower and not very accommodating of …

Around Ireland: Killarney

GETTING THERE Killarney is a tourist town in County Kerry. Our “straight shot” drive on N22 from Cork wasn’t quite as straight or simple as our instructions made it sound. Like much of what we’ve traversed in Ireland, there were many roundabouts, sometimes one every 500 or 600 meters with female Google announcing which exit …