This is Aimee and Daniel on a strip of beach at Ballynahown which is just north of Galway city.
These few photos show Connemara in all her splendour!
And another!
This is a castle we stumbled upon. It is just outside the town of Clifden and was built in the 19th century by a local landlord who ran out of money so it was never finished!
The above and the next photo are taken from the Skyroad which is a drive to do through Clifden.
This is my favourite.
This is a photo of Clifden - it's a bit like Mittagong or maybe Bowral!
We also visited Kylemore Abbey on one of our Connemara drives. Kylemore Abbey was originally built by a wealthy local family which lost their fortune in the early 1900's and had to sell. Some entrepreneurial Benedictine nuns from Ypres in Belgium bought the property just after the First World War and turned it into a school for girls. The school recently closed but the grounds (which include a walled garden, church and lake) and parts of the abbey are all open to the public. I'm pretty sure the crafty nuns are sitting on an absolute tourism gold mine........
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