We spent a quiet Thursday in Dingle. Next Thursday we will leave on the four day journey home with overnights in Dublin, Bangor (Wales), Heathrow, and Las Vegas. It was a generally rainy day with occasional bright spots. I returned some library books and got a couple of new ones. We did some minor shopping at SuperValu. Lunch was at home and I took a nice nap. In the afternoon we drove into town and hit up a new (for us) pub, the Barrack Height. This pub is slightly off the tourist route, so it doesn’t get a lot of Americans. We chatted up Liam, the young bartender. He was surprised that we knew a lot of people in town that he knows well. Their was a fabulous live Calla Lily in the fireplace and a nice painting of local boy Jack Kennedy who is now a top jockey in Ireland and the UK. The painting is him winning the Dingle Derby back in 2014 on Coola Boula, trained by his father, when he was just 15 and riding in flapper races.
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For your information today was a milestone day in Dingle history: Dingle now has a traffic light! It went into operation today. AND today I got my first ever haircut in Dingle from Justin the Barber. (€10).
For dinner we paid our final visit of the trip to Ashe’s Restaurant where we were treated to complementary after dinner drinks after yet another fine meals. You may recall that the Ashes of Dingle are related to Gregory Peck who was once a frequent customer. After Kir Royales to start, Elaine had her favorite, sea scallops and pork belly while I had the turbot special (after six delicious Glenbeigh oysters).
Finally it was off to O’Flaherty’s for some beer and good music before returning home very late to bed.
Only fitting about the haircut, you are now officially an Irishman! (for our anniversary yesterday we went to Roy’s and had the halibut…felt a little like you and Elaine, we took pictures of our plate 😉)
There goes the town — a traffic light of all things! What’s next?
Whenever I see calla lilies I think of Lena.
Sea scallops and pork belly. It could not get better than that. Yum.
Gee, you guys have a tough life over there in Ireland ! 😎 🇮🇪
Not exactly the way my grandparents described it. 😵 🙏. ☘️
Safe travels home. 🌵 🏠
ENVY!!!!!!!!!!!!
Your presence in Ireland must be truly appreciated by the locals as your lend your
Uniquely American persona to the place
BTW how do you make cucumber laugh?
You pickle it!
Great pic of both of you at the restaurant. Good dos for sure too. Briggs, are you enjoying these food pics? One of my favorites is scallops. They sure look good! Ahhhh, calla lillies for mom. We travel Mon. to CA. Very excited to see everyone and celebrate the graduation and Change of Command. Take care you two…..Cindy