What a wondrous sight beheld us in the morning; we discovered that just over a low stone wall and across a hundred metres of grass lay the sea! It was such a shame that it was raining so we couldn't go out for a closer view. We had a lovely cooked breakfast and I discussed the road rules of turning right across traffic with our host who smiled and said the other drivers were just being courteous…how very Irish. I still think they weren't taking any chances wi...

It was a cold drizzly day as we began our three day road trip of Ireland in a Budget hire car office. Our trusty stead for the trip was a cute small car…bred unknown. After a few seconds of internal head chatter about whether to hire a satellite navigator "€15 ($30) a day seems a lot…is it really warranted…after all Ireland's not that big surely we can't get lost…maybe we should" I decided to be sure, to be sure (pun intended) to pay the money and hire ...

(Well dear reader, as you've come this far with me, I have a confession to make before you continue reading. Almost four years have passed since this wonderful trip and I'm only now putting fingers to keyboard to complete the tales of my adventure. "How did that happen?" I hear you ask. I'm not sure, our days just became so full and there weren't enough hours at night to blog and upload photos…that and painfully slow internet connections which didn't help. Al...

We rose early and IT WAS SO COLD. We were rugged up in our thermals but even then the cold made its way through to our bones…I've never been so cold in all my life. After catching a ferry to the bus station we caught a bus to Treviso Airport, just over an hour from Venice, to board our 10:10am flight to Dublin. As we travelled along the canal to the bus station, we began to notice that not everyone was feeling the cold like us…they were dressed in shorts a...