Not much to report today. Did our walks in the morning. Pictures follow. You’ll see Murphy’s Ice Cream Store for which Dingle is famous. You’ll also see Kool Scoops run by Mr &. Mrs. O’Connor, our ice cream store of choice. Elaine loves the honeycomb flavor. You’ll also see SuperValu (our grocery store), the Chart House (our favorite restaurant), the Coach House (our landlady Grainne’s shop), the town gas station, the town street sweeper (out every day!), and a few other landmarks. Oh, and we separately saw a van with NH license plates. He must have taken the new tunnel from Portsmouth to Dingle. And you’ll see the three flags you saw yesterday blowing full out standing limp today. Fortunately the fierce winds have ceased.
We spent most of the day at home. We journeyed out together in the afternoon for the odd pints at Curran’s Pub. Good conversation with Johnny, the bartender, and a couple of locals. Dinner tonight was at the third of our top three restaurants – Ashe’s Bar and Restaurant. Dinner was grand.
Elaine had mussels to start and scallops for her main. I had Glenbeigh oysters followed by John Dory with shrimp. We shared a chocolate brownie with ice cream for dessert.
The highlight of the meal was meeting Hannah (pictured below), a Seattle nurse and Boston College grad (Go Eagles!) travelling alone. Great craic. She has the website url and probably will be reading this. (Hi, Hannah! We loved meeting you. The canal boat trip is on the old blog – here’s a link to the last post from that trip to the Scottish islands and our boat adventure on the canals of Wales. Scroll down from there to see the canal boat portion. Enjoy!)
No music tonight. Early to bed. Told you there wasn’t much to report. There was a pleasant sunset just finishing as we arrived home. Later!
You guys deserve a quiet day after your first week back, jam-packed with walking and pubbing (is that a word?) music, dancing, dining and reacquainting yourself with the locals. Thanks for all the great photos a Dingle and your dinner. Love seeing the photo of Hannah. She definitely look Irish American. God bless all nurses. Have a lovely weekend.
I thought there was plenty to report. I’m exhausted after that long morning walk. Funny to see a NH license plate. The gas prices look cheap enough. I haven’t seen a street sweeper in years.
How nice to have met Hannah. And how brave of her to travel alone. Remember when Mom traveled to Europe alone many years ago?
Dinner again looked so good. Nice sunset.
The gas price in Euros is for a liter. That’s $7.00/gallon
Not so cheap then!!
I agree with Sue, fun to meet Hannah. I am sure she enjoyed the visit too. As usual the food looks great and happy you have your ice cream choices, so important.
Thank you for the pictures of the places you frequent. A picture is worth a thousand words. I love the quiet days of few grand activities. They are healing and rejuvenating. These days I need more of them. Glad you can enjoy them as well. I love your visits to the library and afternoon reading and napping time.
The Guinness is very rejuvenating too.
It was so wonderful to meet you both and see you again the next day! Your recommendations were top-notch and really helped make my time in Dingle special. I can’t wait for the next trip out there!
We’re glad we got to meet you!! Safe travels.