I don’t know about you but in the past, whenever I have thought about Ireland, I pictured a small country with small things. Things like villages with diminutive cottages, leprechauns and wee fairies. However, after visiting Connemara in the west, my vision of a “small country” is changed. For as you gaze out on the [...]
Posted on October 26th, 2009 by dianagene
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I press my camera right up against the glass of the window so I won’t get glare in the photo. The little twin engine, eight passenger aircraft lifts
smoothly in spite of the buffeting the wind gives it. We can see the rocky coast line shrink and the appearance of the tiny fishing boats gives
perspective to [...]
Posted on October 25th, 2009 by dianagene
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The Irish seem to be as clever as their country is beautiful. We had determined that independent travel, showing ourselves around as opposed to having a guide, was not an option in the U.K. as we would want to rent a car to conveniently get around. However, since neither of us had ever attempted to [...]
Posted on October 21st, 2009 by dianagene
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A traveler’s dream come true; the United Kingdom in August. These were the plans and we started with Ireland. We could only be there for a week, so we didn’t even try to get to Northern Ireland, but we were able to see some absolutely beautiful things in the southern regions as well as some [...]
Posted on October 1st, 2009 by dianagene
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