Cong, County Mayo, Ireland

Let’s see how good your movie trivia is ! Do the names Sean Thornton and Mary Kate Danaher ring a bell ? Well Cong, our stop for tonight, is the town where this movie was filmed and the movie has a famous fight scene – drawing crowds from miles around, […]


Killaloe, County Clare

Well here we are in Killaloe and who would have known that this place is famous ! All to do with “The Life of Brian” ! No, not the movie – but significant in the life of 2 other Brians ! In about 941 AD, an Irish King, Brian Boru, […]


Ring of Kerry, Ireland 4

Today was a day of fantastic driving and scenery  – what more can I say ! Except the weather didn’t quite play to the script !  When we woke this morning, the view from our window across Kenmare was quite encouraging – some cloud but a fair indication of […]


Kenmare, County Kerry

If there is a scenic drive around we will more than likely be looking for it and the “Ring of Kerry” is just one of those drives in Ireland. The town of Killarney is probably the more central or well known base for this area however Adrienne’s research has us […]


Dublin, Ireland 2

Dublin ! And all the Guiness you can drink ! Well, not only Guiness, there is plenty more to drink as we found during our 2 days here. And if you haven’t realised already – we’re not in Scotland anymore ! We are in “LAND” number 4 now, IreLAND We […]