Hal and Nancy's visit

In Murphy's Pub, Dingle






Conner Pass and Dingle































Inch Beach













Grogan Pub - Glissan







Armagh B&B











On Monday, we drove out the Dingle Peninsula - Dana and I had toured part of it, but not the Conner Pass - and this is another part of Ireland and H&N did not visit on their first trip - so off we went. The Conner Pass is high, with narrow roads - Dana drove well. There are spectacular views - the weather was sunny, but a little hazy for views from those heights. We then walked around Dingle, had lunch at Murphy's Pub. A fun side event- one of my clients from Tralee was having lunch at the pub; he came over to meet N&H, and was very polite. At the end of our chat, he spontaneously demostrated his latest speech therapy exercise for them! After lunch we shopped quite a bit, and then drove around the end of the peninsula to Slea Head. This was a very picturesque drive and we're glad we took it. We have now found out that on Easter Sunday evening, there was a rock slide and the Slea Head road is closed. We cannot exactly pinpoint the location, but know one of these pictures is very close to where it occurred. The road is now closed and they are busily preparing traffic diversions so that they don't lose out on tourists this summer! We briefly visited the Blasket Islands Center - well have to go another time for the ferry ride to the island. We drove back by Inch beach which is a big, sandy beach which nearly touches the Iveragh Peninsula, on which we drive every Friday. There are signs and paragraphs in tourist brochures about no cars on beaches, but, as you see......




We left Tuesday morning and drove north. We branched east at Limerick and were in new territory. We lucked into a great old pub for lunch - Grogan of Glissane. This is billed as "Goldsmith Country" - Oliver Goldsmith, famous author - we'd like to explore that more, but for this trip we pushed on to Armagh. Luckily, Hal had the forethought to suggest calling the tourist center, which we did 10 minutes before they closed - they were wonderful and immediately got us a great B&B, right on our way in to Armagh City. This was a beautiful B&B and we really enjoyed our host and hostess. We had a nice dinner at a downtown hotel, and as always a great breakfast - we did not starve on this trip!