County Cork is a large region which includes, of course, the city of Cork. For some reason, those who live in the western part of this region stress that they are from West Cork, with the implication being that they…
Porto
Pip can be relied upon to sniff out a market at 100 paces so we inevitably found our way to the Mercado do Bolhao, a sort of Farmer’s Market, full of brightly coloured produce. It was interesting and fun just…
Porto at Night
We were very pleased to be able to host Ros from NZ for a few days. At the planning stage she suggested that she would like to get to Porto while in Europe and we were only too pleased to…
Porto Architecture
We had just a long weekend, Friday to Monday, in Porto where we covered a lot of ground, notwithstanding the very patchy weather. Lots of photo opportunities so I will concentrate in this first post on the buildings which were…
Moher 2
After our ferry landed back at the port of Doolin we climbed back on the coach and headed south to see the Cliffs of Moher from a top down perspective, and this is what it looked like. A spectacular and…
Moher 1
The Cliffs of Moher Ireland’s most visited natural attraction is sited in County Clare, sheer cliffs up to 214 metres high rising up from the Atlantic Ocean. Our ferry from the Aran Islands offered the opportunity to approach them from…
Inis Oirr
In all the excitement of the last couple of weeks, I have completely forgotten to add posts for two of our Galway experiences, so here they come. The first of these was a visit to Inis Oirr. Inis Oirr is…
Kilkenny Castle
A Day Trip to Kilkenny Kilkenny was a town we had not yet been to, so with Ros here, we did a day trip on the train, which got us there in about 1 hour and 20 minutes from Dublin’s…
Edinburgh
Our final two days in Scotland were spent in Edinburgh. Really only one full day, so we stayed in the city centre at an excellent and reasonably-priced hotel called Motel One, in Market St. We did the touristy things, starting…
Aviemore
We were really starting to get into the highlands now. The snow was low on the Cairngorm Mountains and we felt it as soon as we stepped from the train. Our accommodation, shared with Sarah and Chris and the two…