10/05: Made It!!! We're in beautiful Green Ireland
Category: General
Posted by: The Agnew Family
And tonight’s beer is Hop House 13 Lager, a local beer brewed in Dublin (local as we’re less than 70 km from Dublin).
Our flight from Toronto was uneventful … just the way I like it. We left Toronto about 11:20pm. I knew we would get food on the flight but I didn’t expect to get dinner at midnight.
Our first stop is the small town of Glendalough in the Wicklow mountains about 70 km from Dublin airport. Ed did a good job of getting us there --- first it was the M50 to get around Dublin then I got him off the highway onto a road that drove us through the Wicklow mountains. This was an interesting road, barely wide enough for 2 cars ---- oh then there were the sections that were barely wide enough for one car. And he did this while sleep deprived , driving on the wrong side of the road with a manual transmission. Think he’s ready to handle the roads for the rest of the trip.
Looking back at Dublin as we start the drive through the Wicklow mountains.
Some of the beautiful countryside.
Ed’s first geocache in Ireland. You didn’t think he’d wait long to find one did you?
Glendalough, the valley of two lakes, is renowned for its early medieval monastic settlement founded by St. Kevin in the 6th century. A boy named Kevin (later to become St. Kevin) came to this area and is said to have “lived in the hollow of a tree”. There are many stories of animals and birds befriending him. Eventually he left his solitude and returned with other monks to form a monastic community. Kevin died in approximately 618AD.
The gateway to the monastic city of Glendalough.
St. Kevin’s Church and the Round Tower. The roof of the round tower was rebuilt in 1876 using original stones.
A couple photos of the monastic city.
The upper lake.
Riversdale B&B where we spent the night.
Our flight from Toronto was uneventful … just the way I like it. We left Toronto about 11:20pm. I knew we would get food on the flight but I didn’t expect to get dinner at midnight.
Our first stop is the small town of Glendalough in the Wicklow mountains about 70 km from Dublin airport. Ed did a good job of getting us there --- first it was the M50 to get around Dublin then I got him off the highway onto a road that drove us through the Wicklow mountains. This was an interesting road, barely wide enough for 2 cars ---- oh then there were the sections that were barely wide enough for one car. And he did this while sleep deprived , driving on the wrong side of the road with a manual transmission. Think he’s ready to handle the roads for the rest of the trip.
Looking back at Dublin as we start the drive through the Wicklow mountains.
Some of the beautiful countryside.
Ed’s first geocache in Ireland. You didn’t think he’d wait long to find one did you?
Glendalough, the valley of two lakes, is renowned for its early medieval monastic settlement founded by St. Kevin in the 6th century. A boy named Kevin (later to become St. Kevin) came to this area and is said to have “lived in the hollow of a tree”. There are many stories of animals and birds befriending him. Eventually he left his solitude and returned with other monks to form a monastic community. Kevin died in approximately 618AD.
The gateway to the monastic city of Glendalough.
St. Kevin’s Church and the Round Tower. The roof of the round tower was rebuilt in 1876 using original stones.
A couple photos of the monastic city.
The upper lake.
Riversdale B&B where we spent the night.