Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Lough Gur Interpretive Centre & Bunratty Castle

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

The weather is much improved today.  Our first stop of the morning is at Adare. There are has some lovely cottages, an old church and a municipal park in Adare. Quite a lovely spot.

Cottage in Adare

Our next stop was Lough Gur Interpretive Centre.  The site is 5000 years old. There are number of circle rings and other stone buildings.  This place was really out of the way and we had to take many country roads to get there. Since it took 2 hours longer than planned to get there we only had an hour there. We watched the video and had a quick walk around the lake.  It is a scenic stop. Here are some photos of the stone ring and the lake.

Stone circle
 
Lough Gur


Bunratty Castle.

Bunratty castle is a true Irish castle built for the Irish. We were told that the McNamara families were the castle builders. 


Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Ring of Kerry


 Sunday, May, 31st, 2010

Today was our worst weather day. It was overcast and rainy most of the day. Not so great for photos but most of the time we were on the bus. The Ring of Kerry is beautiful. Glad today that we were not renting a car and driving on the narrow winding roads with steep drops and rock faces inches from the bus.


The Ring of Kerry