Quiet Sunday

After church on Sunday, we went into town and walked around for a while. It is a small town, easily managed on foot once you find a place to park the car. There is quite a bit of traffic though, and crossing the streets is tricky.

The town is nice and clean and has lots of flower boxes and planters everywhere. This is the first place we have seen taxis, as well as the first place that has a take-away restaurant that delivers! We haven’t tried it yet, but most of us do like Indian food, so we may do it one night soon.

While in town, we went back to the park we visited the other day. This time it was packed with people and everyone enjoyed their time there.

Just a few miles outside of Donegal town is Lough Eske, so we decided to take a drive and see what we found there. So glad we did! We found Lough Eske Castle hotel, which looks so lovely and has a garden and wooded paths to explore. They even have a spa, so we might come back another day and check things out more closely.

On the road leading up to the castle hotel, the woods were so lovely and there were lots of people out walking and hiking. We found these plants with giant leaves, the kids called them “dinosaur plants”. We’ve seem them before, in Caherdaniel, but never took pictures of them. The leaves can grown up to 4 feet wide and they have something that looks like a giant green pinecone.

The scenic drive around Lough Eske was peaceful and beautiful, but there were no safe places to stop and take pictures, so we just pulled into a driveway and took these 2 very quickly.

It was a very peaceful Sunday!