We spent yesterday recovering from the mammoth journey - 53 hours from getting up on Friday morning until climbing into bed on Saturday night.
We hired a car and drove north to the neolithic tombs at Newgrange. Everyone was interested as we were given guided tours of these monuments, they are centuries older than the pyramids and Stonehenge, and contained 1/3 of the prehistoric art in Western Europe and I had never heard of them until this year - how does that happen? We then went on to the site of the Battle of the Boyne, visited 2 ruined abbeys, including the wonderful Hill of Slane, and finished the day with dinner in an Irish Pub! It was a lovely day, great weather and everyone enjoying the scenery.
Tomorrow we are going to explore Dublin and move on to Kilkenny.
We hired a car and drove north to the neolithic tombs at Newgrange. Everyone was interested as we were given guided tours of these monuments, they are centuries older than the pyramids and Stonehenge, and contained 1/3 of the prehistoric art in Western Europe and I had never heard of them until this year - how does that happen? We then went on to the site of the Battle of the Boyne, visited 2 ruined abbeys, including the wonderful Hill of Slane, and finished the day with dinner in an Irish Pub! It was a lovely day, great weather and everyone enjoying the scenery.
Tomorrow we are going to explore Dublin and move on to Kilkenny.
It looks like the vagrancy laws in Ireland are not as strict over here! Looking forward to sampling some of the kids version of the desserts pictured. See you soon. Rich
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