We travelled up by train on Friday morning and returned on Monday morning, so it was a good chunk of time to explore Galway and the surrounding district. First priority of course was to see Galway Bay, as instructed by…
A Dublin Day
This entry is a little different. It chronicles the sights of Dublin on just one day – Monday 22 September, 2014. I am told that a Mr J Joyce wrote a whole novel about just one day in Dublin in…
Newgrange and Tara
About 50 km north of Dublin is one of Ireland’s finest historical sites and certainly one of the oldest. This is the Newgrange cluster of Passage Tombs, the oldest of which dates back to 3200 BC, making it about 5000…
Revenge of the Odmies
Pip’s birthday today. We looked online for a suitable place to go and found the Brasserie at The Marker Hotel in the Grand Canal / Financial district of Dublin. This is an area close to the river Liffey that was redeveloped…
The Ring of Kerry
This is a famous tourist route on a peninsula in the west of Ireland. By now, the tourists are starting to decline in numbers so we went for a Monday to Friday visit last week with our daughter Sarah, son-in-law…
Another busy weekend
We have just had a hectic long weekend babysitting our two grandsons who live in Hove, near Brighton. Their parents were attending a wedding and at the last moment their local babysitting arrangements fell through so it was SuperGrandma and…
Learning the Language
Dia duit all (a formal Irish greeting; means ‘God with you’. The answer is ‘Dia es muire duit’ (God and Mary with you’!) With the support of my lovely boss Mark, I have been studying the Irish language at classes on a…
Summer flowers
No story, really. Trekked through the Botanic Gardens last week and they are a mass of colour – nothing terribly exotic but loads of colourful flowers so I took a few photos for your delectation.
Guinness in church? Why not?
St Mary’s church in Anne St was built at the start of the 18th century and was one of the first examples of a galleried church in Dublin. It closed in 1964 and was re-opened in the 1990’s as a…
The Art of the Brick
Nathan Sawaya has made his name as an artist working in the medium of Lego bricks. His exhibition, The Art of the Brick, is currently showing in Dublin so we went along to have a look today with Vivienne and…