Flying for just over an hour with total sinus congestion is not, I’m sorry to report, nearly as fun as it sounds. There’s the pressure, the weird sounds as your eustachian tubes try to equalize the pressure inside and outside your head — something kind of like a squish, and something kind of like a [...]
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Because there is something fundamentally sucky about being me, my immune system decided to succumb to a cold just as we were entering Dublin. I can feel it in my throat and in my head, lingering, pondering the possibility of moving down into my lungs to make things just awful. I’m hopeful that this cold [...]
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I think that I forgot to mention the thing that shocked me the most about Clonmacnoise, and that is the fact that the name is prounounced pretty much just the way it is spelled. I was going to guess “Clomanock” or “Lomanock” or perhaps “Raymond Luxury Yacht”, but I was wrong on all three counts. [...]
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Nothing much to report from today. Galway is a wonderful city, but, alas, we had to leave that one too soon as well.
During our driving tour of Connemara yesterday, we discovered that most of the west coast of Ireland is composed of huge slabs of limestone. Some of these huge slabs simply push their way [...]
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This entry will be lacking in details, historical tidbits, and, sadly, anything remotely resembling a sense of humor. It’s currently 11:30 p.m., and I’ve just had a couple of pints. More details will be coming later. For now, just kind of… deal.
So with tears in our eyes, we left Ennis, vowing that one day we [...]
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By the way, pictures from Killarney are here. There are only two of them. Killarney wasn’t all that inspiring, I guess.
So anyway, Quin Abbey started out, originally, as a castle for the MacNamara clan, until it was burned out during one of the innumerable invasions that England inflicted upon Ireland. Afterwards, it was turned [...]
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Camera’s fixed, so I celebrated by taking thirty pictures at Quin Abbey near Ennis. None of them have been transferred to the computer so my regular readers, all three of you, are going to have to wait to see them. Ha ha ha, I’m such a bastard.
We did a lot of driving today, and my [...]
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During a tour we took of Charles Fort yesterday, the guide mentioned that a young man had been beaten to death somewhere in Ireland last week for the crime of being Catholic. Not to make light of this tragedy, both Jennifer and I sort of scoffed. “That’s kind of a daily occurence in the US,” [...]
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…It must be Cork. Or Waterford. Or Cashel. Or… I dunno. I’m sort of losing track. Was it just the other day that we wandered through the Treasures of Waterford museum, learning all about the history of Waterford, from how it started out as a Viking fort and eventually made it into the major city [...]
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The last time I was in Ireland, in 2001, it seemed to me that Parliament had passed a law requiring that every single pub and restaurant in the nation should be playing “It’s Raining Men” on constant repeat. It got to the point where I just laughed every time I heard it. In Westport, in [...]
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One of the brilliant ideas we had before coming to Ireland was to buy a supercheap laptop and throw Linux on to it so that we’d have a mini “photo studio” to process our pictures with as we took them with our digital cameras. After some fussing with the fact that Krita, the standard imaging [...]
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We’re currently hanging out in Kilkenny, in County Kilkenny. We finished up our stay in Trim yesterday morning and headed south. Along the way we stopped and explored a few more historical attractions. We stopped first at Castletown House and took a guided tour. It was an impressive Palladian house, opulent [...]
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The trip over was pretty uneventful. The worst part of it was the half mile forched march through the purgatory that is Heathrow Airport. Getting from the United Airlines terminal to the BMI plane that would fly us to Dublin was a long, hazardous journey that involved a long, painful hike, and two shuttle trips. [...]
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Leaving for Ireland in about ten hours.
That is all.
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