A Breakfast By Any Other Name

While in the UK and Ireland, we’ve stayed in numerous of bed and breakfasts (B&Bs) and guesthouses.  As the second B implies, the room also comes with breakfast in the morning.  More often than not, breakfast isn’t merely yogurt and cereal but a hot, cooked breakfast usually consisting of sausage, bacon, beans, an egg, tomato,…

Galway Tourist

Quick note: lots of pics in this post, so please forgive us if it loads slowly. As Charity mentioned, Ireland is the Coach Isle.  As we do not have a rental car to go sightseeing, when we reached Galway, we decided to set up basecamp and use the city as a jumpoff point for tours–…

Free Derry – no seriously, free Derry already

Before setting off on our Irish adventure, we had identified a few towns and sites that we really wanted to see.  Rick Steves had a show on Northern Ireland and let us know about this little town known as Londonderry.  It had these great murals from an uprising incident sometime in the past and would…

The Coach Isle

I know, I know — Ireland is supposed to be The Emerald Isle and not the Coach Isle and truly, it is green – very green — there are at least forty different shades of it – just ask Johnny Cash.  But truly, allow me the indulgence of temporarily re-branding the poetic name as is…