(A) We woke up this morning to a four-windowed car, thank goodness.
Our first stop today was the Baltinglass Abbey. It’s a 12th-century monastery just a few miles up the road from our cottage. It was a beautiful day, and the abbey (or what was left of it) was beautiful.
After putting my hands on some 874-year-old stones, I really wanted to see some older ones. So, we headed to the Boleycarrigeen Stone Circle. Those are some old stones. I’m talking Druid ceremony old. But in order to get to them, we would have had to drive a compact car down a heavily-rutted road. Just a few yards in, we were bottoming out, and so we reluctantly backed away from what might have been a group of Druids trying to recover from summer solstice partying.
We decided to head into town (Baltinglass) to see what was there. We saw a woman selling strawberries in the market square, as well as several quaint cafés and shops. There were also some swans hanging out on the river.
What we really wanted was lunch at a pub, and none of the pubs in Baltinglass stood out to us. That meant just one thing: a drive to Tullow. Incidentally, the roads we’re traveling on are curvy and narrow, with high hedges on both sides. And the locals drive fast. Kim is the only one of us with any real manual transmission driving experience, and she continues to do a superb job of getting us around safely and soundly.
(K) After lunch in Tullow, we headed to The Chocolate Garden of Ireland for ice cream and so the girls could create their own chocolate dinosaurs.
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