Kevin and Moya's 6-month ADVENTURE !!!

So on Sunday on the Megabus we got to travel to London and then train to Stroud in the Cotswolds where Anthony and his 2 sons Gabriel and Elliot live. Again a great welcome and a chance for Moya to reminisce with her brother. Stroud is a service town for the surrounding villages and as […]

So on the 29th we caught a train to Leeds where Kevin’s nephew Martin, his wife, Morag and their three children Beth, Laurie and Robert reside. Another warm welcome. Kevin had not seen Martin for many years and had never met the children or Morag so it was a really good chance to catch up. […]

I might add the games at Croke Park in Dublin were great, the atmosphere huge. But in the end we boarded the Ryanair flight to Liverpool. Travelling Ryanair is fraught with tension as you wonder whether your bags are the required 15kgs and your carryon luggage within the required dimensions. We passed on all accounts […]

Sean and Gail arrived home on the Saturday and we spent the next couple of days quietly as they got over their jet lag. On the Wednesday, the 4 of us drove north to the Boyne Valley to visit tomb sites that are older than the Pyramids by six centuries and Stonehenge by at least […]

We left Cork without kissing the Blarney Stone (Kevin certainly didn’t need to anyway) and travelled the motorway to Dublin. We detoured to the Rock of Cashel which is reported to be one of Ireland’s most spectacular archaeological sites. This is an ancient Abbey dating from the 4th century. St Patrick is reported to have […]

We said our sad farewells to Gail and Sean’s Kerry House to take two days to reach Dublin. Just after leaving our house we viewed a Staigue Fort. This is a circular stone walled structure which probably sheltered people in the surrounding district. This staigue probably dates from the 3rd or 4th century and is […]

Although the day was overcast and showery we took off to Killarney taking the inland road from Sneem. You never get blasé about the continual vistas no matter how often you see them. This time we had the added privilege of going through part of the Killarney National Park. The road wound up through the […]

The day dawned fine so off we went to explore the walks around our house. We chose to walk the Mass Path a track that joined the beach at the bottom of our hill to the Derrynane Beach. This is part of a Kerry Walk, a series of walking tracks that dot the peninsula. The […]

Skellig Ring is a Gaeltacht area (Gaelige speaking) at the tip of the Inveragh Peninsula It runs from Waterville through Ballinskelligs. It is a wild and beautiful area. Most of the signs are in Gaeltacht but that doesn’t seem to matter as you just follow the narrow windy road. Again there are archaeological sites. We […]

We are now well settled in our house with its magnificent views. We are enjoying the Irish summer(?) which has seen rain off and on most of the days we have been here. However, we have used the house as a base for exploring various parts of the Ring of Kerry. This is the road […]