I have no idea how many posts this will be, how much I will share, or how long it will take me to share. I took roughly 1,000 pictures and recorded ~90 videos during my two week trip to Ireland. I haven’t watched most of the videos and managed to narrow the pictures down to more than 400. Still, too much to share. I’ll figure it out along the way. 🙂
Last pictures before leaving:
The view as we approached JFK. The plane window was very dirty but that’s Manhattan in the middle of the picture. I had just been there with the family about 3 weeks earlier.
Sunrise somewhere over the Atlantic…
It was raining when we arrived.
Baggage claim
The Shannon Airport was pretty small but it made it very easy to navigate (which I appreciated in my extremely sleep deprived and completely overwhelmed state. 🙂 )
My rental car that I dubbed “The Beast”. Giant American vehicles don’t fit so well on Irish roads or in Irish “car parks”.
The vehicle and the steering wheel on the right/wrong side of the car proved to be more of a challenge than driving on the left/wrong side of the road. It was hard to get used to such a large, unfamiliar car and the mirrors were never where I expected to see them.
Since I got to the hotel about 4 hours before check in, my room was not ready. It was cold and rainy out and nothing was open so early on a Sunday morning so I sat in the lobby for a while. I had a terrible time trying to stay awake (red eye flights are the work of the devil) so I went to the hotel’s underground car park and napped in the back seat of my car.
A couple of hours later, I tried the front desk again and they had my room ready. I don’t think I’ve ever been so glad to get into a hotel room. LOL
The view from my room/hotel:
That is the River Shannon. 🙂
I made some phone calls and Facetime’d with people back home then took a nice long nap. I woke up feeling much more refreshed. After a relaxing bath, I went out to wander around Limerick.