Ireland!

IRELAND

July 2014

Began in Dublin...

Bruswells Hotel

FIrst stop.... pub across the street

St. Stephen's Green

Trinity College

LECKY

Time for another pint!

Pub crawl

Guinness Mustache

Ireland National History Museum 

St. Patricks Cathedral

Dublin Castle

 Guinness Storehouse

9000 year lease

Smell the hops!

Guinness Academy... pour the perfect pint

Maybe one more pub...

Rented a car and off to explore the country!

Town of Kildare

Kildare Abbey

Tower to protect against the Vikings

Driving to Cork.... on the left side of the road!

No shoulders.... only 10 ft hedges

Oncoming cars are like playing chicken

Or they come on both roads!

Ahhhh!

Lady with baby?! 

What?!

 JAMESON EXPERIENCE!

How about a Roundabout??

 Here we go...

 Here they come...

 Great success!

  Made it to CORK!

 Hotel Issacs

 Kissed the Blarney Stone

 There it is... all the way up there

 Ummm how is this going to work?

 Smooched it!

 Poisonous Wolfsbane (yup like in Harry Potter)

  Driving to Ballyhoura Mountains

 Lots of road bikers

 Awesome MTB park

 European Mountain Bike Championships were held here in June

 And sometimes it rains in Ireland... hard. Driving to GALWAY!

 And I thought narrow streets in Baltimore were bad.

  Hotel Merrick

 Blankets for outside tables, so cute!

 A little self conscious trying to pee...

  Drove the Atlantic Wild Way

  Ferry to the Aran Islands

  Cliffs of Moher

  Last day in Ireland 

  Some of us do this...

  And some of us do this...

  Quinn Abbey

  Drinking Miwaddy- flavored water. Irish don't drink gallons of soda like Americans do. 

  Ok one more castle.

  creepy much?

  Last drive to Shannon Airport

As they say in Ireland.... CHEERS!