The next morning we packed up and got back on the bus to head to the Tullamore Dew Heritage Centre. At the Centre we took a tour with a guide who taught us how Irish whiskey is made and ended with a tasting of three different whiskeys. The tasting table all set up My tasting […]
The next morning we packed up and got back on the bus. After a bit of driving and a short ferry ride, we arrived at the very windy Cliffs of Moher. We had a little over an hour to explore the cliffs and grab lunch. We were amazed at how many people would get way […]
On the eighth day of our trip, our tour took us out to the Dingle Peninsula. We stopped at a few stores along the way. The first one was just outside of Killarney at the entrance to the Gap of Dunloe called Moriarty’s. I bought a couple of instruments for my niece and nephew while […]
On Friday morning (Ella’s birthday), we packed up and loaded onto the tour bus out of Dublin. We stopped on the side of the road for a few minutes at one point to take pictures of the Rock of Cashel, Rock of Cashel Outside of Blarney Castle A few minutes later made a 20-minute scone and […]
On Thursday we started off the day with 7:30 am breakfast at the hotel and then met our guide for the week, Kim, and coach driver Damien. At 8:30 everyone loaded onto the bus for our tour of Dublin. On the tour, we learned that Maldron Hotel where we were staying was in the modern part of […]
Tuesday morning we walked to Chester Railway Station and caught a train to Llandudno Junction in Wales, close to Conwy. It was a beautiful hour-long train ride through the greenest land I’ve seen and for a good portion of it, it was that land on one side, and the ocean on the other. Gorgeous. We were […]
Sometime last year, my parents found out about a trip to Ireland that a group in a town nearby was going to go on. They decided that we would join the trip and add on a visit to Conwy, Wales to see the town and namesake castle that my mom has wanted to see for […]