HaldeCrate
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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 sorry? Galway was unexpectedly delightful. I didn’t really know much about Galway other than Hawk lived there for a couple of years and loved it,
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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 towers, are typically near churches and other religious buildings. You can read a little bit more about them here and here if you want more
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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 been there, but it was the first time he was there and the castle was open! The castle was built some time in the 1200s,
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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, as we were all learning which high schools we’d be going to, and they were talking about majors. I didn’t really have much to contribute
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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 are (maybe?) the last of the currently unblogged photo albums (yeah, I do use this as a list of things to remember to blog about
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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, and it was all I could do to stay awake long enough to soak in that most excellent tub in the Hyde Hotel… forget about
