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Loching Around Scotland
We left Grandma visiting friends in Glasgow. The rest of us travelled Northwest to reach the Highlands. We stopped in the village of Luss, to explore and make our way to the shore of Loch Lomond. It is one of the largest lochs in the United Kingdom. Luss The village of Luss was quaint. The houses looked like they were taken from a storybook. The people we passed were friendly and informative. Even the notices posted around town had a friendly feel. Loch Lomond Loch Lomond is large and seems to go on and on when you look left or right. There is a dock built for boats to moar…
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Glasgow
Glasgow is an amazing city. It has buildings and places that have been around longer than Canada has even been a country. Kathy and I explored on our own. The rest of the family went to Troon. The Open, a PGA event, was being held in Troon and dad wanted to go. After a lazy morning, we headed back to a large pink/red stone building we had seen the night before. It was the Kelvingrove Art Gallery. The inside and outside were both pretty amazing. From the Art Gallery we could see a tower from the University of Glasgow and it called to us. So we used to tower to…
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WPC: Glaciers
Markers are used to show the edge of this glacier in Alberta, Canada. In only a few short years this glacier has lost much of it’s mass. Fate or Climate Change… There’s really only one right answer. Follow my blog with Bloglovin via Photo Challenge: Evanescent
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Goodbye Ireland – I’m Sure We’ll Meet Again
We had breakfast at the hotel in Galway. Then we went to check out and see about using their printer to print our boarding passes. The hotel didn’t have a printer, what an odd thing not to have. So we left it and hoped we could get the passes printed at the airport.
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Cliffs of Moher
We were up and in the car to head out to the Cliffs of Moher. This is one of the most known sights in Ireland. I couldn’t wait to get there. When you arrive there are shops and Guest Services you can stop at (built right into the hills) or pre-load the Cliffs of Moher app to by pass lines. You will notice quickly that there are many fences and signs warning you away from the edge of the cliffs. This is for your own safety. It’s a long way down. The day was windy and cloudy with a bit of rain but that didn’t take away from the experience…
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Ring of Kerry
After leaving Blarney (read about it here) our plan for the day was to drive up to Killerney on the highway and then go around the Ring of Kerry, stopping where ever tickled our fancy. The Ring of Kerry is a roughly 4 hour drive around a peninsula in south west Ireland. It’s full of breath-taking views along a mostly coastal road. We found beaches of pink rocks, so nice even the cloudy weather couldn’t bring us down. Along the way there were many tiny towns and stunning views. There were access tunnels hidden in hill sides. We didn’t enter but I imagine that there could be any number of…
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Blarney
Breakfast in the morning was included so we head to the restaurant to partake before we went to Blarney Castle. We had a long day of driving planned so we were sure to be at the castle when it opened. Then it is a bit of a walk through the grounds to get to the castle proper. The walk was a nice one and we were greatly entertained by the knitted sweaters some of the trees were wearing.
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Dublin to Blarney
We had a simple morning of waking up when we wanted and checking out of the hotel. Then the navigation game began as we got in the car and tried to figure out how to get to Blarney and it’s famous stone. We used a pre-loaded Google Map, as well as screen shots, just in case I closed the app. We were on vacation though, with no real timeline, just a destination to reach where the hotel was waiting. So along the way we stopped. One city we stopped in was Kilkenny. Kilkenny has an amazing castle the was completed in 1213.
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