Dublin to Newcastle

Today we left Dublin by train for Limerick where we are scheduled to pickup a rental car. The train trip was about two hours. Along the route we conversed a bit with a young Irish girl on her way to Cork. While doing so another passenger overheard our conversation about the Cliffs of Moher. He gave us some useful advice. He was once a bus driver who took tourists to see this very popular attraction. He highly recommended that we go early because up to 40 bus loads of tourists arrive later in the day and can get crazy busy.
In Limerick, we walked a few blocks to pickup our car. It all went smoothly and away we drove. Emma was able to figure out how to connect her phone to the screen in the car and enter the Irish postal code of our next place of stay. The drive took a couple of hours but went very smoothly. I didn’t have too much trouble adjusting to driving on the left side of the road and navigating the many roundabouts.
Our accommodation is a very old farmhouse on a farm in the countryside near Newcastle. We have the whole house to ourselves. Out side are cows, chickens and llamas. After a short break, we drove into the nearby hamlet of Newcastle to do a little walking tour and pickup groceries at Tesco.
Dinner tonight was butter chicken. We bought a sauce mix and cooked chicken thighs in the sauce and served it up with rice and green beans.Read more