Thursday...

On Wednesday night we stayed in Adare and the next morning we toured The Adare Manor before driving to The Dingle Peninsula where we spent Thursday night in Castlegregory. A fun fact, the place we stayed at was AMAZING and the band Dire Straits, as well as some other famous actors and actresses have stayed there. It was easily the nicest B&B I have ever seen, it is one of only a few 5 Diamond B&B's in Ireland and we can certainly see why! And the French Toast with honey and banana for breakfast was the perfect ending to our stay there!

Thursday included a WIDE range of things, we walked on a perfectly sandy beach and collected shells (not something I thought I would do in Ireland), we toured a 2500 year old fort, we drove through some amazing scenery, we saw one of the first christian "churches" in Ireland and we toured a 850 acre mansion.

Here are a few pictures of that day:

(scenery along the coast, with sheep!)

(the view from our room at The Shores Country House. The beach was right there and we sat and watched the waves for a long time.)

(Dingle Peninsula, beach we walked on and collected shells, who knew Ireland had these kind of beaches)

(Gallarus Oratory, one of the first christian churches in Ireland, still waterproof after 1500 years)

(Sherri and I near a 2500 year old Fort above the ocean)

(Adare Manor, former home of the Earl of Dunraven and currently one of the nicest hotels in the world and a golf course that was names #4 in the world by Conde Nast Traveler, the manor covers 850 acres, we couldn't get the entire manor in 1 picture, in fact I'm not sure we could get it in 3 or 4 pictures, it was HUGE)