Settling In . . .

It’s breakfast and shower time here in our temporary home in Killarney.  Annie has given us the morning to do what we want or need to do before our trip to the Dingle Peninsula.

 

Patrick O’ Sullivan, whose cousin Peg lives in Sandpoint and helps out the Monsignor O’Donovan, tells us that the Dingle Peninsula offers  much much more than the Ring of Kerry.

If that be true, we must have a superlative, off-the-charts day in store because yesterday’s Ring of Kerry adventure was no slouch in the realm of all things and creatures beautiful and great.

Sheep sightings aplenty, including precious little lambs, a muzzled Border Collie doing its late afternoon work, fairy-land ambience in a Killarney National Park, a tidy town called Kenmare providing Ireland’s typical store fronts  and goodies for the sweet teeth, enchanting waterfalls and a big beautiful pond called the Atlantic----all  offering abundant opportunities for camera action and geocaching and gasps of awesome memories.

What a day it was, topped off my first taste of bangers and mash and our first meeting with Patrick, the consummate guide and fountain of knowledge in Killarney.  We learned last night that it is not good to sample a Guinness in a hotel, for the staff does not care for the beer with proper respect.

   

“Drink a Guinness in a small pub where the men go,” Patrick told us.

We’ll remember his advice.  Patrick is making telephone calls to set up fishing for Bill and Willie tomorrow. 

In the meantime, we’ll be in the land of the almost total Gaelic  tongue today, along with another dose of breath-taking Irish landscape and rural creatures, great and small.

So far so good.  Time slips by so fast on such adventures, so I’m off to make the best of it.

Happy Monday to all, and a very special Happy Birthday to my dear friend and former student Chad.  Hope you have a wonderful day. 

Enjoy the photos below.