Adventure Culinary Travel
Achill Island - Ireland’s largest island - sits just off the Mayo coast along the Wild Atlantic Way. A beautiful, natural spot with dramatic scenery and great history, we couldn’t wait to dig in! We stopped at a wild rocky beach, saw dramatic cliffs and crashing waves, climbed up a muddy mountain, and visited a famine-era abandoned village!
Read MoreThe rugged coastline in northern County Mayo is covered in bogland. Known as the Atlantic Blanket Bog, this amazing landscape sheds the typical view of Ireland from the emerald green to much more rustic shades of brown. We venture into the bog, walking through the grassland, capturing the breathtaking views, and learning much about this important natural wonder.
Read MoreRockfleet Castle sits on the rugged coastline of County Mayo. The castle is literally built into the sea! Wandering around the seabed at low tide, we got wonderful views of the castle and the surrounding nature… and thought on the life of its most famous resident, the Pirate Queen Grace O’Malley!
Read MoreIreland’s Wild Atlantic Way… a route stretching along the west coast of Ireland that shows off the most rugged, natural, stunning wild landscape the country has to offer. Over the next week of our anniversary trip, we will explore the nature and history of this beautiful area!
Read More“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit…” And for a couple nights, we lived there too! My nerdy side went into meltdown mode as we followed in the footsteps of Bilbo Baggins to Mayo Glamping and our very own hobbit-hole!
Read MoreOoooooh, Lisdoonvarna! Lisdoon- Lisdoon- Lisdoonvarna! The song stuck in our heads as we passed into the pretty little town, home of the famous Matchmaker’s Fair for lonely singles. No fair today, but we did make a stop at one of our favorite culinary destinations, The Burren Smokehouse!
Read MoreOur morning on Inis Oirr was started with a full Irish breakfast before time exploring the beach and the little village. Eventually we caught our ferry back to Doolin… but found ourselves on an unexpected detour by the Cliffs of Moher!
Read MoreReturning from the MV Plassey brought us to the highest point of the island with old castle ruins and an amazing view. What’s left with a night on a small Irish island than to stop at the pub?
Read MoreThe MV Plassey wrecked on the rocky coast of Inis Oirr back in the 1960s, and has rested on the shoreline since, where it slowly rusts and decays in the salty air. The road around the island passes by the wreck, and it’s an easy climb through the stones to get right down to the old ship! From the shore there are not only great views of the wreck, but also of the Inis Oirr lighthouse and the Cliffs of Moher in the distance…
Read MoreThe Church of St Cavan is a ruin on the Irish island of Inis Oirr. Excavated from being mostly buried in the ground, St Cavan’s is an amazing site to see! The patron saint of the Aran Islands, St Cavan himself is buried alongside the old church. We ventured through the old stone archways to explore inside the ruins…
Read MoreWe took the ferry to Inis Oirr, the smallest of the Aran Islands. Life by the sea dominated the world here. We walked the rural roads, with the bright green fields crisscrossed by the random pattern of ancient stone walls, found the local dolphin, and dropped into our first pub back in Ireland!
Read MoreFinally back in Ireland! Ten years has been way too long. We start off running, getting back into the swing of Irish driving as we rushed down to Doolin Pier. Arriving early, we explored the otherworldly terrain along the coastline, full of unique rock formations and micro-environments that felt like another planet!
Read MoreTen years ago we embarked on the biggest adventure of our lives when we were married on September 27, 2008. Immediately after, we took off for our next adventure in Ireland! We loved our time there, and have been thinking for years about when is the best time to go back… and what better time than for our 10 year anniversary?
Read MoreTen years ago on our honeymoon in Ireland, on the advice of a local we met in the town of Athenry, we found our way to Coral Beach. It was a beautiful, rugged, wild coastline full of sea life and dramatic rock formations, truly an amazing place to see... but where was the coral that gave the beach its name?
Read MoreAn Irish story for St. Patrick’s Day! On the edge of Counties Clare and Galway, a confusing wrong turn leads us deep into the rural countryside, where we stumbled on old ruins, emerald green fields, and a stroke of that old Irish luck!
Read MoreA little Nissan Micra, an intense Irish road full of hills, hairpin turns, and free-roaming sheep, and an insanely high speed limit all combine to make the wildest drive we were never expecting to take!
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