Photos of our buggy beginnings to the national park. While there in the park we saw a pretty fancy thatched house. The top of the house was amazing. I wonder if there is a quilting pattern in there somewhere?
Peggy, thanks for the many excuses for a pint of Guinness!
Today was a beautiful trip. I'll post more pictures later. We got to see some dogs herding sheep, and we got to see some types of sheep. One had four horns, sheep have horns The dogs were amazing The only thing that bothered me about the whole thing is that they sold sweaters, but no roving anywhere we went. What's a quilter who needle felts to do? Our bus driver sure was amazing. He sure could get that bus in tight places, I know that's what he is paid to do, but wow. The Atlantic Ocean is beautiful. Our day was perfect, rain in the morning and fog lifting so that we could see the highest mountain in Ireland. It is almost 4,000 feet. Strange to think that we are far away from mountains in Thermopolis and we are as high as their highest mountain. We saw some Celtic ruins but I didn't take pictures as we didn't stop. There were walls of houses around that were sad to see. When people either died or left because of the potato famine, the houses were left alone. Now all the wood is gone and only the stone walls remain. They are all over the place. The other thing that was great was a place called Skellig M____ (I need to write things down). There are two islands off the coast that are really just two big rocks out along the coast. Monks carved out homes on these islands and lived there 500 years after Christ was born. They had to carve 600 stone steps into the cliff side just to get to their monastery. What a hard, long job they had. The places they built to live in were of course small and looked like bee hives. We saw pictures of them, we would have had to go out by boat and climb the 600 steps, I complained about the 101 at the Blarney Castle, I don't think I would have liked those steps, no rails and one slip and it would be the ocean for you.
Today was a beautiful trip. I'll post more pictures later. We got to see some dogs herding sheep, and we got to see some types of sheep. One had four horns, sheep have horns The dogs were amazing The only thing that bothered me about the whole thing is that they sold sweaters, but no roving anywhere we went. What's a quilter who needle felts to do? Our bus driver sure was amazing. He sure could get that bus in tight places, I know that's what he is paid to do, but wow. The Atlantic Ocean is beautiful. Our day was perfect, rain in the morning and fog lifting so that we could see the highest mountain in Ireland. It is almost 4,000 feet. Strange to think that we are far away from mountains in Thermopolis and we are as high as their highest mountain. We saw some Celtic ruins but I didn't take pictures as we didn't stop. There were walls of houses around that were sad to see. When people either died or left because of the potato famine, the houses were left alone. Now all the wood is gone and only the stone walls remain. They are all over the place. The other thing that was great was a place called Skellig M____ (I need to write things down). There are two islands off the coast that are really just two big rocks out along the coast. Monks carved out homes on these islands and lived there 500 years after Christ was born. They had to carve 600 stone steps into the cliff side just to get to their monastery. What a hard, long job they had. The places they built to live in were of course small and looked like bee hives. We saw pictures of them, we would have had to go out by boat and climb the 600 steps, I complained about the 101 at the Blarney Castle, I don't think I would have liked those steps, no rails and one slip and it would be the ocean for you.
Two things I have noticed that I find interesting. Little things, but fun. First of all, the roads are marked just the opposite of ours. The sides have the dotted lines and the center is a solid stripe. The bus has the right of way, so no one tried to pass us so far, I wonder if cars pass each other The other small thing I noticed is that people here pronounce the "th" sound as just a "t" so thirty, for example, it tirty. I think it makes sense and it is a delight to hear.
Again, the flowers were beautiful.
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