Heading to Killarney, Ireland -- Friday June 14, 2013

Today we drove to Killarney. Killarney is a town in County Kerry, southwestern Ireland. The town is on the northeastern shore of Lough Leane, which is part of Killarney National Park.  In 2011 it was named Ireland's tidiest town and the cleanest town in the country by Irish Business Against Litter. 

This is one of the areas I am most excited about for Ed.  The Ring of Kerry and the Dingle Peninsula
are both accessible from our Bed & Breakfast.  Alas...it is going to rain for the next couple of days which are our last three days in Ireland.

The drive from Athlone was very pretty:  some flat lands but mostly beautiful rolling pasture lands with some (clouded over) mountains in the distance.

We found our B&B very quickly.  It is right on Muckross Road---the road to the Ring of Kerry!  It's a beautiful B&B! We came to our room and unpacked and tried to get the wireless to work.
It didn't! The owner was not in, but one of workers was going to try to get it going.  We decide to go out to lunch.

It is raining and does not look good.  We found a restaurant in town that was very nice and then decided to walk around the town of Killarney.  Guide books mention it is touristy and expensive.  That's probably true but we put my new raincoat and hat to good use.

We came back to our room and found the wireless was working so we are all set!  Ed played on importing his pictures from the camera and I read for awhile. The owner even knocked on our door to see if it was fixed.  Nice touch.

View while driving Ring of Kerry

About 5 pm the sun came out, and since it stays light till ten o'clock, we ran to the car to take our first drive on the Ring of Kerry.  Alas, that only worked for about 2 hours when it got socked in again with rain.  Maybe the third time will be a charm.

The ride so far on this area looks well worth the narrow roadways and race car drivers!  It's beautiful.