NOTE: I have been made aware of and experienced a bug in viewing galleries when you are using a chromium based browser (Chrome, for example). The arrow buttons and the close button (X) are not working. There is no time frame for a fix. If you do click on a gallery, you can move from picture to picture using the arrow keys on your computer and close the gallery by pressing the escape (Esc) key.
It’s Monday, 7 AM now. Still pitch black out. Won’t get light until 8:30-ish. And darkness arrives again at 4:15 PM.
Sunday we had a great buffet breakfast at the Crowne Plaza in Dublin before setting out for Dingle at about 8:30. Easy drive, no traffic. There was brief rest room and diet coke stop at Barrack Obama Plaza on the M7. Cloudy most of the way, but, no surprise, it was raining by the time we reached Tralee and the start of the Dingle Peninsula. The Peugeot 3008 is a great car. Great color too. Deep blue. It took me about an hour to figure out the cruise control. All good after that. It’s a French car driven by Americans in Ireland. I’ll get a daylight picture sometime later. In honor of its color and heritage, the car has been named Le Grand Bleu (Big Blue in English and Gorm Mór in Irish). Fiona is still the voice on the SatNav (GPS).
Once in Dingle, we went first to our house for half the stay – 18 Ard Na Mara, the same place we had in the spring.
Once we unloaded all the luggage, we headed downtown to see Grainne, our co-landlord (with her mother, Marion). She wasn’t in her shop (the Coach House), so we’ll catch her and Marion tomorrow. Then we picked up a hamper of Christmas goodies that we had pre-ordered. Then lunch (fish and chips, naturally) at Flannery’s Fish Box. Next, the obligatory stop at the Dingle Pub for the first Guinness of the trip, We chatted with Tom, the owner, and Tommy, the bartender. Next stop was SuperValu to buy essentials (wine, vodka, gin, tonic water and some other non-alcohol related items). Finally it was back to the house to unpack and unwind. We were both pretty much exhausted by this time. Cocktails were good as we killed time watching tv to avoid going to bed before 8:30. No dinner necessary after the late lunch.
See you tomorrow (or so).
I am glad to know things are normal and you are settling in. I am not the only one that goes to bed early. Have fun kids. Be happy. Stay healthy. Thinking of you back in Wisconsin.
It sounds like you’ve settled in comfortably with all the necessary provisions. And how nice that you’ve got a Christmas tree and mantel decorations. Very nice digs.
I bet that first Guinness tasted mighty good! Can’t wait to see Le Grand Bleu in the daylight.
Ah Dingle! Glad you have arrived. Can’t wait to see all the lovely pubs that we frequented too in October 2022!! CHEERS!