Tracking Down the Past: Making Ice Cream (Denmark & Vancouver)
In 2018 Al & I headed to Denmark and Sweden with the idea of meeting up with my aunts and uncles and cousins, and also to track down some of […]
Category Archives: Road Trip
A Batch of Beaches on the Wild Atlantic Way in the North of Ireland
September 26. This day we followed the Wild Atlantic Way (WAW) route along a batch of beaches on the northwest coast of Ireland: Maghery, Portnoe, Ardara, Malin Beg and into […]
Kinsale in Cork County, a Colourful Irish City
October 9. The instructions to find the Rockview B&B in Kinsale were, “if you’re coming from Skibbereen look for the white house, go left and that’s the Glen Rockview…” Al […]
Three Very Different Beaches on the Coast of Cork, Ireland
October 9. We spent the day in County Cork driving from Skibbereen around to the fishing villages of Baltimore and Union Hall, and then onto Kinsale via the Drombeg Stone Circle […]
A Bronze Age Stone Circle in Drombeg, Ireland
October 9. We spent the day in County Cork driving from Skibbereen around to fishing villages of Baltimore and Union Hall, and then onto Kinsale via the Drombeg Stone Circle and […]
The Ruins of the Rock of Cashel & Hore Abbey in Ireland
October 11. After appreciating the Cahir Stone Fort and its beautiful gardens we carried on to the ruins of the Hore Abbey and the Rock of Cashel in Ireland. A view […]
Cahir Castle in the Irish Autumn
October 11. We came upon Cahir Castle in October, just as the trees were starting to change colour. The moat surrounding the castle.A colourful engraving of Cahir Castle when it […]
Skibbereen to the Fishing Villages of Baltimore and Union Hall, Ireland
October 9. We spent the day in County Cork driving from Skibbereen around to Baltimore and Union Hall, and then onto Kinsale via the Drombeg Stone Circle and the Timoleague Friary […]
Around the Ring of Beara in Ireland
On the previous day, October 7, we drove from Sneem to Castletownbere via the Ballighbeama Gap and Killarney National Park. October 8. Our landlady in Castletownbere wasn’t the chatty sort but […]
The Star-Shaped Charles Fort in Kinsale, Ireland
For this star-shaped fort in Ireland I looked at the differences between my photos and Al’s. I snap, snap, snap, taking pictures of everything “and nothing” as Al says. He’s […]
