slowly she turned
Living the Slow life in North Carolina
Author: Laurie
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After breakfast and one more cliffside stroll we headed into Dingle. We were both eager to find some art galleries and in particular I wanted to go to tapestry weaver Lisbeth Mulcahy’s studio and shop. She was out of town, but I was able to take a photo of her studio. We bought some small…
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Our place to stay on the Dingle Peninsula was Gorman’s Clifftop House in Ballydavid. When we arrived, there was a peat fire in the fireplace and Sandy immediately collapsed for a nap in our beautiful spacious room. I had to get out on those glorious cliffs right in front of us for a walk with…
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The plan was to drive around the Kerry peninsula on the Ring of Kerry on our way to Dingle. Then Sandy turned right when I said left, and there aren’t many good places to turn around. Which was just as well, because the north edge of the Ring of Kerry has beautiful scenery around the…
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Wednesday morning was a big shopping day for us in Kenmare. Sandy bought sweaters and shirts and a handwoven cape and scarf for me in Glenaran Irish Market, silver Celtic knot wedding bands in honor of our 25th wedding anniversary at Finnegan’s Jewelers, books including a field guide to Irish wildflowers at Kenmare Bookshop, and…
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We meandered to the south on Tuesday, nearly a full day of driving. In County Meath close to Newgrange, we stopped at a spinner/weaver’s farm and shop, Boyne Valley Wools. Her work was beautiful and inexpensively priced, and if she had taken credit cards or if I had had cash I would be the proud…
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Photographs from our visit to Brú na Bóinne, the Newgrange and Knowth sites. It was a blustery day and we got cold and wet despite our umbrellas. It taught us to keep our raincoats close at hand in future outings in Ireland. Next post – Tuesday, May 15, 2012: Heading south
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On Monday morning, we had an elegant full Irish breakfast, then caught a taxi to the airport. We meant to take a bus, but a taxi zoomed up to us at the bus stop and offered to take us to the airport for the same fare. The taxi driver talked about the referendum that the…
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After an excellent breakfast at Ariel House, we braved a wicked wind to roam the streets of Temple Bar (very quiet on a Sunday morning, as you might think) and central Dublin until the museums opened that afternoon. A public art show wrapped two sides of the edge of St. Stephen’s Green, where, again, a…
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>Since we were too early to check into Ariel House, we left our luggage there and hopped back onto the DART train to go to Trinity College, where I wanted to see the Book of Kells. This was a major item on my list, and in retrospect I maybe should have waited until I was…
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Saturday, May 12, 2012 After touching down early in the morning at Dublin Airport, bleary from our body clocks’ insistence that it was 1:30 a.m., we muddled our way to a city bus taking us to the center of Dublin, where we hopped off too early on O’Connell St. on the advice of someone who…
slowly she turned 