Ireland

Where do I begin our Ireland story? I guess, at the beginning…..
We left the motorhome at the RV repair shop to get the jacks fixed while we were gone and left Seattle on Friday morning – changed planes in Chicago – and arrived in Dublin at 8am Saturday morning. Then we took a cab to the train station and traveled for about 3 hours on the train to Kilarney where we met Judy and Marilou. We had been through so many different time zones my body had no idea what time it was but, the clock said 2:30pm! After the trip to Kuala Lumpur it was “a piece of cake!”  Fish and chips for dinner and then early to bed!
We drove around the “Ring of Kerry” – a peninsula – on Sunday. Beautiful scenery along the rugged coastline; mountains; waterfalls; quaint towns and rolling farmland. There are primarily small sheep farms in this area and instead of branding the sheep they spray paint them with different colors! Bright red, green or blue – some are striped. Poor sheep know they are headed for mutton when they come after them with a paint can! Those grown for wool are not painted. We saw an old gentleman dressed in boots and woolens leading his draft horse down this narrow lane – a perfect Irish scene – but, we felt it would be rude to take his picture.  Many of the attractions are located on private property so the families charge to see them. The weather was gray, cold, windy and misting –  just as we expected. Judy did great driving on the “wrong” side of the road. It’s especially confusing with all the “round- a-bouts!” Many of the roads are so narrow that one car has to pull over to let another pass – really scary when you meet a tour bus!