"There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more." Lord Byron I feel like the theme of this trip was "we'll sleep when we're dead!" (I [...]
"O, my Luve is like a red, red rose, That’s newly sprung in June. O, my Luve is like the melodie, That’s sweetly played in tune." Robert Burns Other than Paris, I haven't fallen in love with a city I wanted to move to immediately- until I visited Edinburgh. The sweet classic charm of Edinburgh [...]
“To be kind to all, to like many and love a few, to be needed and wanted by those we love, is certainly the nearest we can come to happiness.” Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots (1542 – 1587) After a glorious trip around Ireland and Northern Ireland, the time had come to cross over to [...]
I have been an over-packer my entire life, until last year! I challenged myself to only carry-on my luggage for a two and a half week trip to the United Kingdom and Ireland last summer- and I crushed it! During this particular vacation we stayed in nine different locations in England, Wales, Ireland, Northern Ireland, [...]
After a long day of travel from Galway, and learning about folklore at the Giant's Causeway, we traveled to Belfast, Northern Ireland. We only had one night, and a half day the following morning before we took a ferry toward Glasgow, Scotland, but we made the most of it! When we finally found our airbnb [...]
"I have seen landscapes . . . which, under a particular light, make me feel that at any moment a giant might raise his head over the next ridge." - C. S. Lewis After spending a night in Galway, Ireland, we woke up early to make the four hour drive to Giant's Causeway on our [...]
"It is better to spend money like there's no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there's no money!" - Irish Saying We arrived in Galway pretty late after exploring Limerick and the Cliffs of Moher, however we made the most out of our few hours in the city. Right after checking into the Airbnb, we [...]
"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." - Albert Einstein Limerick After waking up on our last morning in Dublin, we began our trek across the country to stay in Galway that same night. We started heading west toward Limerick, on our way we stopped at the Cliffs of Moher, before [...]
"Here’s to a long life and a merry one. A quick death and an easy one. A pretty girl and an honest one. A cold pint and another one!" - Irish Saying The second day in Dublin we took a day trip to Kilkenny, about and hour and a half south of Dublin. This was [...]
"Pocléimnigh" - Closet English Translation: Frolicking So if you read the previous post about our time in Cardiff and Conwy, Wales, you may remember that we took the 7:30 am Holyhead Ferry to Dublin. This was the first time we had taken a ferry like this (i.e. we were driving from Wales to Ireland), and [...]
Postcards and Airplanes 