Monat: August 2024

Dear diary – let me tell you about the last part of my holiday.

On Monday Mommy had a terrible idea – Let’s go to the Aran Islands… by ferry – she said.

So we did that. Equiped for a long day, with rain jackets and some food and drinks. At first everything was OK. It took us 1,5 hours by ferry to Inis Mór, the biggest of the three islands. The sea was quite rough and towards the end, Mommy didn’t feel very well, like many other people on board. She could see now, that it had been a bad idea.

But on the island everything was OK again. Lots of fresh air and wind. We drove around in a mini bus, but also walked quite a bit.

We walked up to the fort and then visited the seven churches.

The way back to Galway took 2,5 hours by ferry. The sea was very rough and everyone was very sick. Wondy was sick, too, inside our doll bag. Mommy had wanted to see the famous Cliffs of Moher, but when we stopped there, she had no power to take me out of the bag, so I had to stay inside and got no picture in front of the Cliffs.

We all felt ill the rest of the day ….

On Tuesday we went back to Dublin. We had no breakfast. Mommy was still ill.

We had a short stop in Tullamore, but didn’t have much time there.

In the late afternoon we were back in Dublin. Handed over our rental car and went to our hotel where we spent the last night.

On the last day we started with breakfast … finally… I was starving. As you can see it was only a bagel because our humans still could not eat much ( I think Mommy will not have a trip on a ferry in the near future).

We walked about Dublin … Saw a few statues…

… they are great for climbing …

… passed the Whisky Museum, but didn’t go inside. I was a little worried that Wondy would like to have drink again, get drunk and start singing (embarassing!!!) .

Then we passed the Bank of Ireland (I could do with some extra cash – the holiday was expensive – But how to get in?)

Could it be that easy?

We spend the rest of the day in parks – St. Stephen’s Green (which was quite crowded) and Iveagh Park. (which was very quiet)

We had fun in a Labyrinth which gave me Harry Potter vibes.

But in the middle there was no portkey only a sundial.

Wondy liked the rose garden.

In the late afternoon we went to the airport by taxi and flew home. We arrived home very late at night and were tired the whole of the next day. But we had enough energy to unpack the souvenirs.

On Friday Mommy said, that both Wondy and I had to take a bath as we were quite dirty.

Next weekend I will give a party for my DCSuperhero friends. I have to order fish and chips, beer and whisky and then I will tell them about our adventures and show them all the nice pictures of Ireland.

Dear diary. I’m back again after one week. Many things have happened in the past few days, so let me tell you about them.

Last Tuesday we left Kilkenny. The weather was a little windy again, but not too cold. We stopped at the Rock of Cashel. It used to be a castle, then a cathedral, but now it’s a ruin. It was quite interesting to explore, but I got bored after some time as I had already seen enough ruins. Hopefully we will visit sth. else during our next stop.

There was a thing that looked like a well, but it was not a wishing well as it was filled up. I still made the wish to visit other things than old ruins.

Our next big stop was in Cork.

We visited an old fort. It was a …. ruin, but at least there were more interesting things to see than old stones.

Statues…

… guns …

…walls…

… cut off heads.

But Wondy liked the city more. We went shopping and stopped at the English market. After that we ate a burger in a pub.

The next day we went to visit an old house – luckily not a ruin.

Muckross House and gardens.

The house was impressive – outside and inside, but you are not allowed to touch anything.

They didn’t say that you are not allowed to slip down the handrails, though.

We enjoyed the gardens.

The weather got rainier later, so our stop by the Tork Waterfall was quite short.

On our last day in Cork we visited two museums – no ruins, yeahhh!!!

The old Cork Waterworks Museum. A nice place to explore, full of old engines. People saw us playing around. It’s not really allowed, but we said it was for instagram and that was OK then.

After that we went to the Old City Gaol – I liked that.

That’s me in a cell – I liked it, but I was happy to get out again.

On Saturday morning we just had a little walk across the campus of Cork University…

… and then left for Limerick. It is a little busy town. We didn’t spend much time there. We were impressed by the mighty river Shannon ….

… King John’s Castle …

… and street art.

You know how much I’m interested in art.

In the evening we arrived in Galway.

Today the weather was quite fine, so we walked around Galway.

We visited the Latin Quarter, the Spanish Arch and other places.

Wondy was attracted to Guinness again – I’m a little afraid she might get addicted to beer.

Now, in the evening, I ate some pizza and took time to write about my adventures of the past week.

Wait for my new adventures tomorrow and in the following days. I will write again as soon as I have time.

Hello there. Wondy and I are on holiday again. As it has been raining a lot today and I have a little time to write about the adventures of last week.

We came to Ireland by plane. We had to travel in the rucksack – it was a bit cramped, but luckily the flight was not so long. The woman at the airport looked into the rucksack – must have been because Wondy made noises. She thought it was funny to see us in there. Well, I don’t know what’s so funny about two dolls travelling in a bag. It’s the most normal thing.

We went directly to the hotel and had a rest while our humans went to the pub to have a drink and listen to music.

The next day after breakfast

we had a tour of the Jameson distillery. We had a free drink at the end of the tour.

We had lunch at the Hard Rock Café.

… then walked around the city.

I had to take a picture with the famous statue of Molly Malone.

Thank God the cockels and mussels are not alive anymore – imagine the smell!

On the second day we had a tour on a Hop-on-Hop-off-Bus to see as many points of interests in the city as possible.

Of course works of art are interesting to me as always and I have to pose on them.

Mommy wanted to go to different toy shops … Danger!!!

She didn’t buy anything at the first one.

… but she bought someone at the second one. You will meet her later…

We saw the famous Ha’penny bridge.

… and Dublin Castle.

On the third day we had a tour of Guinness.

… and a free drink again.

On Friday we picked up the rental car and went off to Kilkenny. Daddy is driving and he has got a bracelet to remind him to drive on the left. Of course I could drive, too but he won’t let me.

We stopped at Carlow to eat some sandwiches and look at the castle.

Duckett’s Grove near Carlow was more interesting- a great ruin to explore.

In the late afternoon we arrived in Kilkenny. The hotel is a little bit outside the town so it’s a walk of 20 minutes to the centre – in a bag with Wondy again.

On the first day we had a tour of the brewery … with a free drink again. They drink a lot in Ireland and I think our humans only go on tours of breweries and distilleries because of the free drinks.

We visited the Castle and spend some time in the gardens.

… and we also looked at the town walls.

On Sunday we went to the beach at Tramore. It was quite windy so we couldn’t take a swim although we had our bathing suits with us.

We only went for a walk in the wet sand.

I fell over into the wet sand and got dirty. I had to wash and let the wind dry me. Mommy didn’t want me dirty in the bag.

Wondy didn’t get dirty of course as she kept away from the wet sand – coward!!!

We ate some very fatty fish and chips. I think I need to serve sth. like this to my DCSuperhero friends when we get back.

On the way back we visited Jerpoint Abbey – there are lots of old buildings and ruins here.

Today is our last day in Kilkenny. It’s raining, so there are not many things to do outside. But we went to a shopping centre to buy some things. Daddy bought some reading glasses – he always loses sth. during the holidays. Mostly it’s the sunglasses, but as there was not a lot of sun it was the reading glasses this time. Mummy always buys clothes or jewellery – luckily there was not toy shop.

We crossed the famous Green Bridge – I don’t know why it’s called like that, it’s not really green.

Tomorrow we are off to Cork. I’ll write about that in a few days.