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Wild Glow at the Zoo 2025

For a month each spring, The Living Desert gets taken over by thousands of glowing sculptures. It’s an event called Wild Glow and believe it or not, it changes every year. Each sculpture is made of what appears to be Read more…

By Sean, 4 weeksApril 23, 2025 ago
Ireland 2024

Galway & Sean’s Bar

Galway looked like every other town we’d been to, which again isn’t a dig I’m just at a loss for how describe yet another. We did happen upon the offices of famous game developer John Romero (DOOM, Wolfenstein, etc) which Read more…

By Sean, 11 monthsJune 21, 2024 ago
Ireland 2024

Cliffs of Moher

The place we stayed the night before, in Doolin, was unremarkable so I’m not going to bother wish photos. However they did have a map for guests to pin their homelands. I somehow managed to cram one into the already Read more…

By Sean, 11 monthsJune 20, 2024 ago
Ireland 2024

Bunratty Castle and Folk Park

This stop was a bit of an odd one. It was part historical site (the castle and some remaining structures) and part faux town of yesteryear. To their credit, it was sometimes hard to tell which parts were original structures Read more…

By Sean, 11 monthsJune 19, 2024 ago
Ireland 2024

Slea Head Drive

This drive, pronounced like “sleigh”, was similar to The Ring of Kerry which you’ll remember from Killarney a few posts back. The Ring of Kerry seems to get top billing on the Island but everyone with whom we spoke said Read more…

By Sean, 11 monthsJune 18, 2024 ago
Ireland 2024

Dingle

Dingle, once upon a time, was a small fishing village and while they do still bring in seafare their main industry these days is tourism. I’m not quite sure how to feel about that. We heard similar stories around the Read more…

By Sean, 11 monthsJune 18, 2024 ago
Ireland 2024

Pax Guest House

I don’t know if I can do justice to The Pax Guest House, but I’ll try. It’s owned and operated by a man named John, who by all accounts is doing what he was put on this earth to do. Read more…

By Sean, 11 monthsJune 17, 2024 ago
Ireland 2024

Ring of Kerry

The Ring of Kerry is a drive similar to that of Maui’s Road to Hana. We chose to drive it ourselves, which started out as a great idea and ended up as a bad one after Google sent us down Read more…

By Sean, 11 monthsJune 16, 2024 ago
Ireland 2024

Some Time Apart…

Sarah and I have been to a bunch of foreign countries together; Italy, Croatia, and Iceland… come to think of it we seem to favor countries that start with I. Anyhow, on the morning of the 16th Sarah and I Read more…

By Sean, 11 monthsJune 16, 2024 ago
Ireland 2024

Killarney & Loch Lein Country House

The big attraction here is the Ring of Kerry, which will be the topic of the next post. This is just going to be a quick look at the town and the place we stayed. Loch Lein Country House The Read more…

By Sean, 11 monthsJune 16, 2024 ago

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