A Bridge, Two Giants, And a Big Baby.

Okay, we are in France, but I am going back to Ireland again here for a minute. Several of the things I really loved about Ireland was the self-deprecating Irish sense of humor, their never-ending gift of blarney, and the folklore and mythology that run through everything they do (and have done). It is a […]

A Few More Sea Cliffs And Rocks… A Bit More Ireland.

Ireland is not that big. It does have 4,600-odd miles of coastline, though, so plenty of opportunity to visit sea cliffs and crazy rock formations. I’m not feeling terribly motivated to do a bunch of writing tonight, so I will just let the pictures carry this post. Enjoy! Thanks for checking it out!

Irish Highways and Byways.

Well, yes, it’s true we have been in Germany, Portugal and France for the last month and a half, but we have been busy with friends visiting, so I haven’t actually finished posting a few things about Ireland (or Germany, Portugal, or France for that matter). This is one I wanted to do for a […]

Haunted Houses and Castles, and a Bit of Spanish Treasure… Ballylough House

Yes, we are in Portugal now, but I am going to have to go back and do some posts on Ireland. We spent so much time driving and exploring that I didn’t get any downtime to post about all of our experiences. Here goes… Everything in Ireland seems to be old. Well, to be fair, […]

The Poopsies’ European Road Trip

We made it back to Germany after five weeks of touring around Ireland. We had one day to repack all of our gear and head to Portugal for our one-month stay at a spot that will great for kiteboarding and surfing. After five weeks of blatant touristing around the “Emerald Isle” we were both ready […]

Irish Bridges… and an Occasional Bridge Troll

We took a nice long hike the other day in the Tollymore Forest Park, near Newcastle (as opposed to all the Oldcastles), in the Mourne Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. All this in the Northwest part of Ireland, just a quick one-hour drive from Belfast.. After a couple hours of hiking in the mountains, we […]

Two very Irish Cities… Dublin and Belfast

We spent two and a half weeks in Dublin, and we liked it. But… Dublin seems like a big city that was designed by someone without a ton of creativity. There are some beautiful spots there, really nice architecture and engineering, but it seems like they just gave up designing and started repeating the best […]

A Drive To The Wicklow Mountains For A Walk In The Woods And A Walk Around Glendalough.

Every now and then you just find the perfect piece of road, with the perfect road trip partner, in the perfect car. Well, I hit two out of three, anyway. I would have traded out our little VW Polo rental for something a little more sporty, but a least it’s a manual transmission, so still […]

Coastlines, Castles, Ruins Fatigue, The Blarney Stone, And The Real Distance To Tipperary… The (beautiful) South of Ireland.

This is going to be a long one… Sorry! We left Munich scorching in it’s eighty-seven degree heatwave (the Germans don’t do well with that type of heat and get very stern and very grumpy), and flew to Ireland for a comfortable eighty degrees and sunshine. The Irish folks assured us of two things: 1.) […]

Whoah, what a change… Europe!

Well, we made it to Europe. Specifically, we made it to Germany. All I can really say is that it is a significant change from the Pacific Islands and Latin America. First off, There is no ocean here in Bavaria, and there are green fields and mountains instead. Flying in, I was reminded (the same […]