For the next couple of weeks, I am turning this blog into a travelogue.
Thanks to the unbelievable generosity of a friend, Joy and I are on our way to Ireland tomorrow for a ten day vacation. It's the first time we have gone out of the country together just for fun, and coincides with our fortieth year of marriage. it is also the longest vacation we've have in years. We are very, very excited.
We want to share our excitement and story with all our friends, but putting it up on Facebook just isn't enough. So I'll be blogging about it here, every chance I get, as well as posting pictures and highlights on Facebook. Those of you who are interested are invited to join us electronically by reading these blog postings and following our pictures and adventures on Facebook.
As we get ready to go, we don't have a set itinerary, but there are some things we have planned.
We fly out tomorrow night at 6:30 PM. and arrive in Dublin about 6:30 A. M. We will take a train across Ireland Thursday morning and arrive in Galway about noon. After checking into a hotel to sleep off jet lag, we plan to rent a car and head for our friends' home on the west coast of Ireland. From there, we plan to explore long and far. We will return to Dublin, where we're booked into a hotel that was once an honest-to-goodness castle. In between, we have a lot of things we are looking forward to experiencing. Among them are.
1. The hospitality and company of our friends.
2. The beauty of the Irish landscape
3. Galway and Dublin, rumored to be two of the prettiest cities in the world.
4. People who speak English with an Irish accent.
5. People speaking in Gaelic to each others. Gaelic is a beautiful language--if flowers could talk, they would speak Gaelic.
6. Sixty-five degree highs in August.
7. Being able to legally drive on the wrong side of the road.
8. Visiting ancient castles, ruins and archaeological sites. Here in Carolina, our idea of an ancient relic is a '57 Chevy on blocks in someone's front yard.
9. Exploring monuments of the ancient church of Ireland, especially its pre-Catholic days, when it was one of the lights of spirituality in the west.
10. If we can make it there, kissing the Blarney stone. I'm sure they spray it with disinfectant regularly.
11. Walking on the same ground my ancestors once walked. I'm sure they've forgotten why we were run off from there by now.
12. Irish music.
13. Potatoes. No really, I haven't eaten one in two years.
14. Leprechauns.
I'm sure there's so many more things we will find to write about. If any of you have any ideas Facebook me.
For all of you, seriously, keep us in your prayers as we travel. You will all be in our thoughts as we go.
Thanks to the unbelievable generosity of a friend, Joy and I are on our way to Ireland tomorrow for a ten day vacation. It's the first time we have gone out of the country together just for fun, and coincides with our fortieth year of marriage. it is also the longest vacation we've have in years. We are very, very excited.
We want to share our excitement and story with all our friends, but putting it up on Facebook just isn't enough. So I'll be blogging about it here, every chance I get, as well as posting pictures and highlights on Facebook. Those of you who are interested are invited to join us electronically by reading these blog postings and following our pictures and adventures on Facebook.
As we get ready to go, we don't have a set itinerary, but there are some things we have planned.
We fly out tomorrow night at 6:30 PM. and arrive in Dublin about 6:30 A. M. We will take a train across Ireland Thursday morning and arrive in Galway about noon. After checking into a hotel to sleep off jet lag, we plan to rent a car and head for our friends' home on the west coast of Ireland. From there, we plan to explore long and far. We will return to Dublin, where we're booked into a hotel that was once an honest-to-goodness castle. In between, we have a lot of things we are looking forward to experiencing. Among them are.
1. The hospitality and company of our friends.
2. The beauty of the Irish landscape
3. Galway and Dublin, rumored to be two of the prettiest cities in the world.
4. People who speak English with an Irish accent.
5. People speaking in Gaelic to each others. Gaelic is a beautiful language--if flowers could talk, they would speak Gaelic.
6. Sixty-five degree highs in August.
7. Being able to legally drive on the wrong side of the road.
8. Visiting ancient castles, ruins and archaeological sites. Here in Carolina, our idea of an ancient relic is a '57 Chevy on blocks in someone's front yard.
9. Exploring monuments of the ancient church of Ireland, especially its pre-Catholic days, when it was one of the lights of spirituality in the west.
10. If we can make it there, kissing the Blarney stone. I'm sure they spray it with disinfectant regularly.
11. Walking on the same ground my ancestors once walked. I'm sure they've forgotten why we were run off from there by now.
12. Irish music.
13. Potatoes. No really, I haven't eaten one in two years.
14. Leprechauns.
I'm sure there's so many more things we will find to write about. If any of you have any ideas Facebook me.
For all of you, seriously, keep us in your prayers as we travel. You will all be in our thoughts as we go.
No comments:
Post a Comment