Street art and statues in Galway
Lorena
This is by NO means a comprehensive post. There was almost too much to see – sometimes we’d walk one way and I wouldn’t see something, but I’d see it…
April 2024
Walking around Galway
At this point, writing a blog post every other day about something I did, I’ll be done telling everyone about my three weeks in Ireland some time in May. Sorry/not…
Roscrea Round Tower and St. Conrad’s church
After Hawk and I dropped Jenn off with her friend, to stay a day or two, we stopped at Roscrea Round Tower and St. Conrad’s church. Round towers, originally bell…
Cahir Castle
On our drive from Wexford to Galway, in addition to stopping for gas and ALL THE SNACKS, we stopped at Cahir Castle. It was not the first time Hawk had…
Who do I want to be when I grow up?
Maybe my Gen X is showing, but I didn’t grow up knowing what I wanted to be. I remember having a chat with two other classmates in the 8th grade,…
One more list of photo albums
OK, y’all, I *really* thought it would be easier than it has been for me to write a daily travel blog/journal entry…. (note to self for Scotland and England….!). Here…
Time for another catch-up-on-albums post!
At Hawk’s house, we had some nasty weather and that gave me about a day and a half of catch-up time on blogging. Then we ran pell-mell into having fun,…
Tintern Abbey (Ireland, not Wales)
You can’t tell me there aren’t fairies here. Why is there a Tintern Abbey? Let me see if I can tell you like an Irish person would. Yer man William,…
The Wexford Wildfowl Reserve
Every birder should go to the Wexford Wildfowl Reserve. Like Sweetwater Branch or the La Chua trail, you’re going to see different animals depending on what time of year it…
Walking around Wexford
Wexford was pretty much exactly what I was hoping for/expecting from a small Irish town. Village? I know there are classifications but off the top of my head I can’t…
Somerset
Have you read Burnett’s Secret Garden? Or Tana French’s The Likeness? Then you might have an idea of what you expect, what you see in your head, when your friend…
The train from Dublin to Wexford
This almost broke me, y’all. The morning did not start out great. Breakfast was fine, but after breakfast when I went back up to the room to finish packing and…