More Travelling

My last post covered Monday to Thursday.  So this post will start with Friday in Galway City.

We travelled through the little roads and byways of Connemara.

We stopped off in a little town - just to take photos of course.  Sorry I've no idea what the place was called.

The next day was rather dull.  We had stayed the night in Clifden and  started the day by visiting Kylemore Abbey.

It has an amazing walled garden that's a mile away from the house.

By the time we got to Keel on Achill Island the mist had come down and it was raining.    Sadly it covered what would have been an amazing view from our B&B bedroom window.

Next day was still miserable.  However it clear up a little bit near lunchtime as we arrived at Ceide Fields.

The coast line was really interesting geologically.

We drove to Downpatrick Head and walked up to the cliff edge to look at this stack.

 

A quick stop in Killala

I didn't take any photos during Monday as we were driving from the West Coast to Dublin Port to get the ferry.  We had booked overnight accommodation on Anglesey.  The Seaside Shanty was recommended to us as a place to eat and it had the most intriguing interior design.

A clock made of wood.

And the final day of our holiday started with a walk on the beach 

A beach with views over to Snowdonia.

We travelled back through north Wales and home

We had a fabulous time. 9 days, 1540 miles and 510 photos.

Thanks for joining me today.
Bernice

Travelling in West Ireland

Last week we took the ferry from Pembroke Dock to Rosslare.   We chose this route so that we could see Pembrokeshire in all its glory from the sea.  Sadly it was shrouded in mist so I didn't get the photos I really wanted.

We arrived at our B&B in Wexford to find a castle wall in the back garden.

During the 4 days I am going to share with you in this post I took 296 photos.  You will be pleased to know that I whittled them down to 26 for this post!   We love to travel about along country lanes and look at the passing countryside, occasionally stopping off to have a bit of a walkabout.  I took this photo of Lismore Castle through the car windscreen.

We went into the church at Lismore.

Shame about the lights hanging in the way!

We meandered on until we got to Cashel.  We walked around the cathedral on top of the rock.  There was a plethora of Celtic crosses.

We travelled on that day to Limerick.  And next day we walked around the old town of Limerick.  There were a couple of large churches and a castle.   I loved these chimneys.

And these derelict cottages painted to look as though people lived there.

We continued our meandering around Loop Head, stopping to walk around the headland and obviously to take yet more photos.

We passed many of these square towers which we eventually found out were built by people to keep themselves safe.

We eventually arrived at Spanish Point where we were staying the night.

This dog decided to accompany us on our walk.

Our fourth day had disappointing weather in the morning.  So after stopping in Miltown Malbay to see the waterfall that is right in the middle of town, we went to The Burren Visitor Centre, in Kilfenora.

When we came out of the Visitor Centre it had stopped raining and the sun had come out.  It was still very windy.  We made our way to the Cliffs of Moher - along with about 10,000 other people.  May be an exaggeration but there were a lot of cars, coaches and people!

The Burren is famous for its limestone pavements which I found quite difficult to photograph.

The Burren is an amazing area with miles and miles of the limestone pavements and amazing inland cliffs.   We included a visit to a Megolithic tomb.  I particularly liked this bit of pavement that looked like an animal.

We travelled on to Galway City where we found a B&B in Salthill.

More to come about our travels along the Wild Atlantic Coast in my next post.

Thanks for joining me today.
Bernice