We all had a great night's sleep at the house, waking to make a nice breakfast, lunch and packed up the car. We headed north out of Tobercurry. We aimed first for the town of Foxford to see the woolen mill. I thought it would provide a good juxtaposition to all the handweaving. Unfortunately, the …
Author: redpathatease
The Neolithic Way
We began the day a mite earlier to get a head start. Up before the hostel crowd got to the kitchen, so we had the place to ourselves making breakfast and preparing our lunch for the road. Packed up we headed off toward Donegal town. We reached there rather quickly, considering we weren't on the …
Slieve League
It was a sleep in sort of morning. While the kids still slept I went down to the hostel kitchen for some coffee. There I met two middle aged brothers cycling parts of the Wild Atlantic Way. Not an easy thing to do considering there are no shoulders on the roads, the roads as I've …
The Start of the Wild Atlantic Way
We woke a bit late this morning as Mandy didn't feel the alarm she had set on vibrate. Not an issue. We got dressed and ready in no time and went to the hostel kitchen for breakfast. It was a lively place with most residents already there chowing down. We packed up the car and …
Back to the Republic
We woke before our alarm, so took our time getting ready to head downstairs for breakfast. We ate in the little sunroom, with the weather appearing fair to middling. Good enough. As a number of the Irish mentioned, as long as it is not raining, it's good enough. Works for us. We left the Causeway …
The Causeway Coastal Route
We rose this morning, had a quick breakfast then walked down to the Carnlough harbor. It was yet another film location, for which I'm now calling GoT, as I'm beginning to tire of writing it out. Supposedly Arya came up the harbor steps out of the water there. That done we closed up the house …
Winterfell
This morning we got up in sufficient time to reach Castle Ward outside of Downpatrick, to meet our booked Game of Thrones event. We packed up and cleaned up the house, locking the door and dropping the key into the mail slot. We drove out of Newcastle and found our way to Downpatrick and out …
Newcastle
We all woke having had the most restful night of our journey thus far. It helped that we were in a private cottage with two bedrooms and tremendously comfortable beds. We had decided last night on a plan A and plan B for today, depending on the weather once we arose this morning. While having …
On the Road Again
It was an interesting night at the hostel... lived up to the review comments we read prior to booking. It was rather noisy from the pub below and it had limited electrical outlets. However, the 8 bed room we were assigned was clean and the bunks were comfortable enough. Only one other resident had come …
On to Ireland
Well, someone crazy booked an early morning flight from Reykjavik to Dublin. Yeah, that would be me. It's why we chose to stay at the old base by the airport. It still necessitated a 0330 wakeup to be ready for the 0430 shuttle to the airport. All went rather well, though I think fewer machines …
Redpath At Ease 