Triple-Distilled Irish Whiskey at the Jameson Experience, Midleton, Ireland
Traveling is the greatest opportunity to learn. My favorite quote on travel is by Saint Augustine, who said, “The world is a book, and those [Read More…]
Destinations
The Rock of Cashel, Ireland
The Rock of Cashel is a castle/cathedral that sits on top of a giant rock that rises up from the Irish farmlands very near the [Read More…]
King John’s Castle, Limerick
Our homebase in the west of Ireland was a tiny little village called Silvermines, just south of the only slightly larger town of Nenagh (“Knee-nuh”), [Read More…]
Holyhead Island, Lough Derg, Ireland
Before we visited Ireland we had visions of narrow, twisty, rock-fence lined roads along which farmers shepherded their sheep. It was all true except for [Read More…]
The Cliffs of Moher
The Cliffs of Moher are billed as the #1 most-visited tourist attraction of Ireland. Now you could either expect that to result in a huge [Read More…]
An Irish Music Pub Crawl
Ireland has a culture of storytelling and music, and a great way to get a sample of that music is to visit a pub. If [Read More…]
Food, Folklore and Fairies in Dublin
A visit to the Brazenhead Pub in Dublin, Ireland is an occasion itself, but if you go on the right evening, at the right time, [Read More…]
Grá Le Éirinn (In Love With Ireland)
We’ve gone and done it again: we’ve fallen in love with an entire country. In Portugal and Spain we found an affinity for Americans among [Read More…]
Glasgow’s Riverside Transportation Museum and the Future of Museum Tech
The Oldest (Known) Bicycle in the World Not all museums in the United Kingdom are the hodge-podge collections we’ve described in previous blogs. At least [Read More…]
The Cathedral Church of Saint Mungo, Glasgow
Not much writing in today’s blog, just “another cathedral”. You’d think we’d get tired of seeing them, but we don’t. This is the Cathedral Church [Read More…]