Town of Bray
Looking for Europe's oldest geocache in the Bray area south of Dublin
Railway south of Bray
Beautiful landscape southwest of Bray
Heather is blooming
Gorse is blooming
Very small Irish house on the ground
Dunbrody ship. Carried passengers to North America during the potato famine around 1850. <br />Transported timber and guano to Ireland
Pennywort
Drombeg Stone Circle, from around 153 BC to 127 AC
Cooking place
No right of public access, as we are used to
Church west of Drombeg Stone Circle
Glengariff
Seal rocks at Glengariff
Ladies view north towards Killarney (Queen Victoria's ladies in 1861)
Ladies view
Close to Ladies view (passed here by bicycle in 1968)
Greenery along the road (southern part of Ring of Kerry)
Derrynane House garden
Garden
Giant Rhubarb
Nice flowers
Flower
Derrynane beach (along Ring of Kerry)
Sand dunes at Derrynane beach
View towards Scariff Island
Waterville
Typical Irish breakfast at B&B (here in Waterville)
Very gaelic part of Ireland
St Finians bay, slightly west of Ring of Kerry, nice beach
View towards Skellig Michael
Gaelic language
Landscape at the Skeillig Ring (western part of the peninsula)
Kerry Cliffs
Kerry Cliffs and Skellig Michael at the horizon
Valentia Tetrapod Trackway (the first footprints from four legged vertebrates 350-370 million years ago)
Houses on Valentia Island
Small ferry at Knightstown
Lunch at Ring of Kerry
A rainy walk in the greenery
Narrow roads along the coast
Cows on the road
Ferry, 20 minutes, across the Shannon Estuary
Tarbert Lighthouse
Loop Head Ligthouse from 1854
Loop Head Lighthouse, windy at the tip of Loop Head
Lovers leap at Loop Head
Lovers Leap, Diarmuid and Gráinne’s Rock
Ross Bay on the Wild Atlantic Way
Bay close to the Bridges of Ross
Bridge of Ross arch
Small island north of the Loop Head peninsula
Rough coastline
Cliffs of Moher, around 200 meters high
Northern part of Cliffs of Moher
Cliffs of Moher
Lots of fossiles
Doolin pub with local beer
Doolin pub, Irish dance
Doolin pu with Irish music, very nice experience
No good news for going to Aran Islands
Bad weather at Doolin harbour for going to Aran Islands
We didn't use the allowed speed limit
Kilfenora church
The Burren land
Poulnabrone Dolmen (portal tomb), created around 5000 years ago
Aillwee Cave
Dunguaire Castle from 1520
Connemara
Clifden, Alcock & Brown Hotel
The first non-stop transatlantic flight June 1919 (Newfoundland - Clifden)
Killary Harbour (Fjord)
Leenaun graveyard
Aasleagh waterfall
Lunch break in Doloough Valley
Doolough Valley
Doolough Tragedy, many people died in bad weather and due to famine in 1849<br />when they made a long walk and were refused help
Memorial cross
Desmond Tutu was here
Irish hills west of Westport
Tobernalt Holy Well at Sligo
Giant's Causeway (similar structures on Staffa in the Hebrides, Scotland),<br />a legend about giants is associated with the geological formation
Basalt columns
Interesting formations
High basalt columns
The Giant's Boot (according to the legend)
Dunluce Castle from 13th century, close to Giant's Causeway on Northern Ireland north coast
Northern Ireland landscape
Waterfoot, Northern Ireland
The Spike in Dublin, 120 m high (unfortunately we just had a short stay in Dublin)
Michael Collins, leading figure in the Irish struggle for indepedence around 1920 (assassinated 1922).
