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Well one day we are admring the view and the next day we drove back to Dublin. Caught the plane and are safely back in Wagga. Hope you have enjoyed our "holiday". It was great

Dingle

Friday 27th Feb

The drive to Dinge was spectacular. We stayed in a beutiful guest house overlooking the harbour area where all the fishing boats come in. This part of Ireland is very proud of the Gaelic heritage and speak Gaelic, so "An Daingan" is Dingle

Beautiful hills and little streams running into the ocean everywhere. The one below was actually running over the road and Craig did his fast drive through to make a splash like we were in a 4 wheel drive instead of our Nissan Micra!!

The paddocks run right down to the water or the cliff face and the fences are all stone and the grass is sooooo green. The photos might not show exaclty how green it was as most of them are late afternoon and there was not a great deal of light. This is how I imagined Ireland to be - beautiful!

Blarney castle

Well this area is what I thought Ireland really looked like. It is beautiful. Blarney is a cute little village with a traditional village green, and the people are fantastic. And the Blarney Castle hotel is the most beautiful hotel.
Craig and I ventured out to Blarney Castle (about 100m from the town centre). The grounds and gardens were beautiful and in a few weeks time the bulbs will be magnificent and I'm sure the trees will soon begin to get their leaves
Blarney Castle is a ruin, but you can walk all the way to the top to kiss the Blarney stone if that is what you like. The picture below is of the opening that you hang down from to kiss the stone. Yuck! Anyway, that is my excuse - nothing at all to do with heights!!
We are running short of time at this end of our holiday, so the very friendly man at the hotel had suggested an itinerary for today that will give us the best of the west coast in a day!
We drove to the Killarney lakes area via Kenmare and then to the Dingle peninsula, rather than whole of the Ring off Kerry. Dingle peninsular is a bit smaller than the ring of Kerry and the roads are too small for the tourist buses, so it was perfect.