Made it to Caherdaniel!

On Monday, we left Johnstown, Arklow, County Wicklow and headed on a 6 hour drive south and west to Caherdaniel, County Kerry. We drove through Wicklow, Wexford, and Cork. Caherdaniel is just over the border from Cork into Kerry, about a mile from the Ring of Kerry road.

This is the view from the front door of the house.

There is a path down from the lawn to the road below, and Maggie and Colleen followed it and found the way down to the beach. They said the sand was like quicksand! The rest of us will check it out later today after we finish school.

Those two islands in the distance are part of the Skellig Islands. Just down the road from here is a ferry that makes the trip to the islands. We are hoping they run this time of year!

We had a delicious early dinner (we skipped lunch since we were driving all day) at An Corcan, which means The Pots. The waitress was so nice and after dinner she gave us some helpful hints for finding the grocery stores. She commiserated with me on feeding all the teenagers 🙂 So we headed to the Centra just around the corner and got enough food for breakfast and lunch tomorrow, and then we will take the longer drive (40 minutes!) to the nearest Lidl. We got spoiled in Arklow where the Lidl was right in town.

We were so tired from the journey that we were all in bed by just before 10. The days have gotten so long that it wasn’t even completely dark yet, but that didn’t stop us.

It seems that the internet is much better here in Caherdaniel, and I had no trouble getting the photos to upload. Now I will have a chance to update the blog with all the photos from the last month.