Miscellanous trips ....

Had a busy few days with a couple of various trip in the last few days....

• 2 consecutive friday trips to Kilkee.
• 1 weekend rip to Dublin

Shopping in Dublin

MayFly a shop in Temple Bar worth checking out : http://www.mayfly.ie/

Pub .. target acquired

No Worry

Objective Pub ....

Blue Sky over Dublin

• And, on Wednesday I went to Cork for an expo via Limerick Junction.

Cork

Expo on new media ( television )

Sunset over UCC

Irish Holidays with my parents

I am back from 10 days travelling with my parents in the North of Ireland with my parents. A good occasion for me to visit, Irish places I don't usually hang into.

Here's the full road trip ( minus some detours ):
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Over 1400 km, a couple of days in Dublin , then in UK before finishing in Donegal.

Tallship anchored on the Liffey

Guinness for moral support

First we started in Dublin Visiting the Guinness StoreHouse The quays, and Trinity College and the book of Kells

Sculputre along the old quays

 

That's the way to ensure it won't be stolen...

 Also a bit of wandering under the sun in the streets of the fair city: We also visited St Patrick Cathedral, and seen it's organ fund:

A keg as an organ fund... inside St Patrick cathedral ... ???

Suprisingly at the restaurant in Temple Bar I was able to find some Muprhy:

My favourite stout... Murphy

Then after a small detour through NewGrange ,we were off to Belfast to see the Titanic Quarter:

The entrance of the Titanic experience...

The dry dock in the Titanic Quarter in Belfast

We settle for a couple of days in Antrim, visiting the Bushmills Old Distillery:

A nice sample of Bushmills

 Then the Giant Causeway, and the coastline. Before going back to the republic we went to Derry:

Diamong in Derry

 The flower were blooming all over the place...

Heather blooming

We settled in Killybeg for a couple of days:

Killybeg fishing harbour

Off course we had a bit more pints of Guiness:

Mor stout

And healthy Irish breakfast:

Irish Breakfast ... foodporn

We also did a bit of tweed shopping:

Tweed shopping

It was soon time to go back to Dublin, but on the way back we stopped at the Bundoran beaches:

Bundoran Beach

And Carrick On Shannon. By 5PM wednesday we were in Dublin, I said goodbye to my parents before they fly back to France, and soon I was on the way back to Limerick via the bus:

On the way back to Limerick

 I realize that I have a lot more pics, so I'll add a post or 2 to add those later.

All picture on this post taken with Instagram on Android.

Being a tourist for another weekend

Another weekend, being the tourist around Ireland ( around Dingle ) and playing with my large angle lens (sigma 10-20 ).

Dingle Peninsula


Still Dingle where Ryan Daughter has been partially filmed:


in Dingle town:

And no he's not drinking Guiness, just coffee

Pub in Dingle town, easy to find it's in front of the church... and if you want to find the church it's in front of the pub:


Dingle local shops