History Lessons

I’m going to change it up and start with a picture, because we checked into our CASTLE this evening.  Yes, it is a castle, and yes, it is amazing. Here’s the view from our window.  The room is massive and gorgeous. The restaurant is in the dungeon full of knight’s armour, and the other restaurant […]

Two Words: Hurricane Bertha

Well we’ve definitely gotten great use out of our rain coats. I just wish I had rain pants and wellies to go with it. My feet were wet all day today – so wet that I could ring out my socks after our adventure into St. Andrew’s town centre (I spell things Scottish now…) this […]

Back to the Mainland

Today was a long driving day to get us back on the mainland. Perfect weather however we would have preferred the rain today as opposed to tomorrow. Anti-rain dance everyone! We managed to sneak in a few cool sites along the way: Eilean Donan Castle (the castle from Made of Honor, also one of the […]

Just a little "mist"….

According to Bill (host at our current B&B), rain is a bad word on the Isle of Skye. You can’t tell someone that it might rain today, because then they will just want to leave the Isle. Instead, whenever speaking of any precipitation, they reference it as mist. Well… we had just a little “mist” […]

A Magical Day

Apologies in advance as I’m practically falling asleep while typing this.  It has been a long, but magical day! We started out going to the train station to see the Harry Potter steam train, and then we headed out to the Glenfinnan Viaduct which is the only location outside of Britain that Harry Potter was […]

Scotland!

We have arrived in Scotland! The plane from Shannon to Edinburgh was a prop plane which was a completely new experience for us. Very very loud and very small. But we lived! We landed in Edinburgh and drove straight to Ft. William which is where the Jacobite Steam train is. For those who don’t know, […]

Last full day in Ireland

Since it is our last full day in Ireland, we stayed around and explored right around Ennis. Started off on a walking tour of the town given by Jane O’Brien, a lady born and raised in Ennis (her son Fergus tagged along).  The tour was very informative and quite interesting, especially with all of the […]

Today = Irish Castles

What we saw:– O’Dea Castle– Dysert O’Dea Monastery– St. Tola’s Cross– Dromore Woods– O’Brien Castle, ruin– Dunguaire Castle– Drumharsna Castle, ruin– Lots of random ruined churches– Quin Abbey/Friary What we experienced:– Driving on a one lane road and coming head first towards another vehicle with no where to pull off– Dinner in a pub Today […]

Almost Famous Eating Shamrocks

What we saw:– Cliffs of Moher– Waterfall in Doolin– Cave from Harry Potter– Irish Coast Guard– Smithstown Castle– Leamaneh Castle– Sheep– Caherconnell Stone Fort– Hole of Sorrow– Tesco– Pay to use public restroom– Coad Church (ruins) What we experienced:– Communal breakfast with guys from London, New Zealand, and Ireland– Eating Shamrocks– My 15 minutes (hopefully […]