Travel

After a solid week of nonstop touring of Ireland, we were worn out. It happened to be a Sunday, and the Lord says we should [Read More…]

Grange Stone Circle Interesting factoid: England might have the most famous one (Stonehenge), but Ireland has more ancient stone circles per capita than any other [Read More…]

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…]

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…]

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…]

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 are billed as the #1 most-visited tourist attraction of Ireland. Now you could either expect that to result in a huge [Read More…]

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…]

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…]

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…]