The three peaks is referred to as the "three sisters". The white specks in the middle distance are holiday homes, which are used in the summer for vacationers.
Patty on a cliff overlooking a beach.
We are at an inlet where history says, Saint Brendan sailed to North America in a small boat - 1000 years before Christopher Columbus!
This is the front of our Bed & Breakfast in Dingle - The Captain's House - built in the 1800s.
Crossing the stream in from of The Captain's House.
A part of the Old City Wall that circled Dingle during the middle ages to keep out the Vikings.
A street in Dingle.
A view of Dingle and Dingle harbor from a street high on the hill above the town.
The sign gives the "Irish" name for Dingle .
The back entrance to our apartment at The Captain's House. Notice the center "doornob" - when we were at our other house in Cleveland, we were Irish and didn't know it! Almost all the old doors in Dingle had the middle door nobs!
Main street in Dingle.
Mailing your post cards from Dingle.
A midieval Bee Hive house and storage tower. This was the type homes the ancient Celtic peoples of Ireland lived in and the towers were for their defense against the Viking raids.
Andy on the beach at Dingle harbor looking for shells and sea glass.
An Irish lady told me - this be the "yellow fars". We found out they are "yellow firs".
After Leaving the Dingle Peninsula - we made our way to Dublin, since our flight out of Ireland would be this city. My only real interest in Dublin was Trinity Colleges museum with the "Book of Kells" - the only mideval document surviving with hand scribed sections of the Bible".
Patty at a flower market on Grafton Street in Dublin.
Our hotel in Dublin - Jury's Inn. It was just across the street from Dublin Castle.
The Lieffy River flows through the middle of Dublin. This view of the bridges was just a block from our hotel.
Temple Bar (a famous old pub in Dublin) This area is very much like Canal Street in New Orleans (bars, pubs, restarants - just no nudey joints - Thank God!)
We ate lunch at this pub.
Patty at a pub where she ate potato & Leek soup with Irish brown bread.
A statue of "Sweet Molly Malone" - know affectionately as "The Tart with the Cart".
The gates at Dublin Castle.
The SIE group sitting at the Dublin Airport - waiting to fly back to England.
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The pics are gorgeous! I'm so happy you guys got to go there and see such beautiful scenery. Did you know that Jury's Inn is where we stayed while in Dublin too? How funny?!
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