Many meetings
We left Belfast from the wonderfully named George Best International Airport. Small airports are often the best travelling experience, and two buses got us there with a minimum of fuss — except for a...
Category: 2023 Pilgrimages
Day 19: The Game of Giant’s Causeway
Tour groups and bus trips are not our preferred mode of holidaying, even when they offer experiences we could not otherwise gain access to. Other friends to a lot of this sort of thing;...
Day 16–18: Belfast – much more than the Titanic
Travel is supposed to broaden the mind, but I think the most important effect should be to sharpen one’s curiosity. We haven’t visited a place in all our journeys where we haven’t wanted to...
Day 15 in Derry: tragedy and comedy
It is difficult to decide exactly what brought us to Derry, but honouring one of religion’s great prophets is surely a good answer! We’ve spent decades knowing about the Troubles in Derry, but never...
Days 12–14: Sligo: — journey through Yeats’ imagination
The wind has bundled up the clouds high over Knocknarea,
And thrown the thunder on the stones for all that Maeve can say.
Days 9–11: Connemara Hideaway
(Thursday 11 May to Sunday 14 May) We had thought that we would do a walk through Galway on our way to our B and B near Rossaveel, but there was far too much...
Days 6–8: Kilkenny and Cobh
Monday saw us check out of Heather House and trek south to Kilkenny to see David and Mary in their new house, now they are safely transplanted back in Ireland. Kilkenny was a flying...
Days 4–5: Glendalough
Paula has been talking about Glendalough since she was there in 2015 as part of a spirituality immersion with the Sisters of Charity; so it was one of the first places on our agenda...
Dublin Day 2: hoofing it
Because we have seen a fair bit of Dublin now, we decided it would be nice to grab the surprising sunshine and find a nice walk. Howth and the coast won because it was...
Dublin again, Day 1
While Paula has visited Dublin in the last few years (courtesy of the Sisters of Charity), I haven’t been back since 2006. My memories were of a rather grey and gritty town, and I...