“Luckily he is used to me and we very much have an open-door policy.”
“My husband is not a regular Instagram user, so you can imagine my explanation as to who is coming for lunch,” she wrote to me before we arrived. On Instagram, I had connected with a local reader named Peggy, and she invited us over for lunch! We ate sliced steak, potatoes and salad with her delightful family. How gorgeous is this view? Can you spot the house with the red door?Īfter two nights in Dingle, we drove a couple hours north to County Clare. It’s one of the most scenic drives in the world, although the narrow road often winds along cliff edges - not for the faint of heart. One wild afternoon, we drove the Slea Head Drive, a 46 kilometer loop around the Dingle Peninsula. Anton practiced it at our hotel, walking down the street, on the playground, in the car, literally everywhere. My friend Sharon once noted that every trip has a “trip toy” - an inexpensive trinket that you pick up and play with on repeat. Since Ireland is so northern, the summer days last forever - here’s the view from our room at 9 p.m.! We stayed at a family-run bed and breakfast called Greenmount House. Above are the boys doing our daily stop for Murphy’s Ice Cream, which is handmade in Dingle with milk from local grass-fed cows. The brightly colored shops were so charming, and everyone was beyond friendly. Next we headed to Dingle, a small fishing town in southwest Ireland. We even met a few of the staff members from the video! Starstruck!!! But! The boys and I had stumbled across this YouTube video of the staff of the Killarney Park Hotel singing the Beauty and the Beast song “Be Our Guest.” We were immediately sold. When planning trips, I’m usually a research nerd who LOVES making painstakingly slow decisions about hotels and Airbnbs. We rode over bridges, went through the forest, and saw a castle and when the wind kicked up, he gave us woolen blankets. We wanted to explore but were sleepy from the flight, so we took a carriage ride with a charming redhead named Damien.
Our first day, we stayed in Killarney, a quaint town next to a national park. The boys and I flew directly from New York to Shannon, Ireland. Here are a few photos, if you’d like to see… And beforehand, the boys and I stopped for a few days in Ireland, just the three of us (Alex had to work), since I used to go there as a little girl. This month, we were lucky enough to spend time at my grandmother’s house in Cornwall, England.
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