Rock of Cashel

Before I start with more traveling reports I want to show you an Irish curiosity: Family Butchers. Sounds like a killer to me... "Uhm, I'd like the, eh, student special please..."


Last week was very great. Claudia was here for a visit and we did some more traveling and hiking. A very nice trip was the Rock of Cashel, about 1 hour from Limerick. It is an old fortress with an abbey nearby.
On the next picture you see the picture, that probably every visitor takes. Shame on me.



There is a graveyard in front of the building with many nice celtic crosses and old graves.

After seeing the rock of Cashel we walked to the abbey nearby. The cool thing was that there were no other people, so we had a lot of time for strolling around and taking pictures. On the next picture you can see the Rock of Cashel on the hill in the background.

Cliffs of Moher

Last week my parents came to Ireland for a visit. I was really happy to see them here. Of course we visited some attractions. Cliffs of Moher is a standard for most tourists in Ireland. Thats why it is unfortunately also quite commercialised. There is a big visitors center and you have to pay for the parking. Still the cliffs are impressive. It is like a huge wall of rock that falls steeply into the ocean.

Connemara National Park

Last weekend I went with Radu and Serban on another hike. This one was in Connemara National Park. After about two and a half hour driving we started our hike.
Basically the route covered all the hilltops that can be seen on the panoramas and goes around a horseshoe along a ridge. It was a very long and exhausting hike. But the view from the hilltops was among the best that I have ever seen.



At this point we were almost on the first hilltop. We still looked happy, because we -danger: bushism- misunderestimated the remaining way.

This picture shows the great view into the valley from about the middle of the hike.