Our jaunts on Ireland’s southern coast have revealed to me the secret of obnoxiously touristy attractions: People flock there for a reason.

We were happy to visit before the flock had migrated there for the summer, however. On a gray, drizzly, nippy Saturday, we shared Blarney Castle with just half a dozen of our new best friends: the brave and the few. Read the rest of this entry →

Whoever disparaged Irish food can’t have spent very much time here.

Molly Malone, fishmonger and Dublin mascot

Bed&Breakfasts have reduced us to two meals a day: No need for lunch after breakfasts like this

Dad ordered our first Full Irish Breakfast at Quince Cottage, near Dublin

Full Irish Breakfast includes black and white pudding (blood sausage and pork sausage)

Breakfast from Quince Cottage in Dublin: smoked salmon galore!

Cork’s historic Old English Market

The Market sells everything from pig’s head to marzipan

Raspberry chocolate mousse from the market