Travelling Trappies

Well, all good things must come to an end and we have reached the end of this part of our journey. We’re heading to Greece tonight (on a midnight flight – ugh), but looking forward to some warm weather again 😊   Ireland certainly has some magnificent scenery and the ‘Wild Atlantic Way’ down the south and west coast certainly lives up to its name. However, before I get to that, I need to back up to where I last left off, I believe we were in a little town called Swanlinbar. We headed off nice and early to do a wee tiki tour, taking in lush countryside, some small villages and arriving late afternoon into Doolin, which turns out to be a very busy little tourist village. Not a huge amount to it but a favourite stopover for the Cliffs of Moher visitors (like us). Like most of Ireland so far, it was very windy and cold, but we found a nice bar to park up in and enjoyed a lovely Irish stew followed by folk music. Just a stumble back to our B&B (minus the second B). It was nice and...

  Fàilte from Norn Iron. Well, it’s been fairly busy since we last posted. We took a quick trip to Nottingham on the way to Newark to drop off our home before spending a few days in London, then jumping on a plane to Ireland.   In Nottingham, we managed to catch the bus into town and then promptly turned the wrong way, so instead of 5 mins round the corner we ended up doing a walking tour of the city before finally finding Nottingham Castle!! The upside of getting lost was that we found a beach, water and a beach bar right in the middle of town. Complete with an amusement park, games and food trucks, the ‘sea’ was geared towards the little ones and the bar towards the parents!  We didn’t go for a paddle but it was one of the better beaches we’ve seen 😊.  After a wee wander round the grounds of the castle, I posed with Robin Hood (well his statue anyway) before we headed to the ‘oldest pub’ in England. There are at least three other pubs who claim that honour, but we...