After just a fortnight since I flew off to Barcelona, the next holiday had arrived - travelling with my mum and sister to Ireland. Despite the country being just across the sea, I had never been there before, and it was to become was my 48th visited.

After taking the Ryanair flight from Luton we arrived at the tiny airport in Kerry and waited for the bus to take us the town of Killarney where we would base ourselves for the two night trip.

We had decided to visit Kerry as there had been nowhere particular in Ireland that we really wanted to visit - rather just an experience of traditional Ireland that we were intrigued. And with the flight from Luton and the Ring of Kerry, Killarney had settled that for us. As we had taken an afternoon flight, by the time we ate than then reached our room in a B&B, there wasn't much else we intended to do that evening, and so we just settled in before the next day when we had booked an excursion to take us around the Ring of Kerry.

After waking up and taking a filling breakfast, we walked 5 minutes around the corner to the office to get our tickets and board our coach. Unsurprisingly it was filled with Americans - a staple of any tour, which provided my sister and me with a laugh.


On the way to the airport the previous day, we had seen a lady walking a greyhound - to which my dad but in my conversation to announce that "there's a woman walking her donkey". This had given my sister and I a good laugh all day, and as we began the tour of the Ring of Kerry, suddenly what did we see - a man posing with a donkey. Of course we were in stitches as this - and immediately started taking pictures to tell dad about the "man walking his dog".

The Ring of Kerry itself was nice, but not a lot to it - lots of nice scenery, but as the weather was bad there wasn't much else to look at. However the American behind me had clearly never seen a sheep before, and began pointing every single one out to her son (who had also strapped in a toy one on the coach).

After pointing out a baby sheep (aka a lamb), I began to joke with my sister making "Baa" noises - to which she told me, I was "good at sheep impressions" before telling me that she was going to London and needed to "get [her] some Pound!". I agreed that she did, before turning back around and laughing.





Coming back to Killarney we took a little walk around the town finding Penneys as well as getting some souvenirs.

Our final day had an afternoon flight, so we spent the day walking around Killarney, starting with a walk down to Ross Castle and Lough Leane where there were great views as well as a lot of wind, before making our way back to the town to carry out some more shopping and enjoying the local culture to mark the end of our brief, but interesting trip to the other British Isles nation.