It a beautiful sunny day. Yesterday was pretty good too. Maybe “whoever has the rosary beads at the back of the bus is working their magic”…. lol!

In this area they can’t get enough people to work in the hotels…. It is jumping off place to see other places in the area. 

Going for a ride on the horse carts is good thing to do in Killarney. Price doubles on a rainy day…amazing!!!

Largest container cranes in world made here in Killarney for German company, Liebherr. The village built the airport and hotel have the owners bring the factory here.  When those cranes are transported to Cork to be shipped,they close the highways at night because the roads are too narrow. 

The  mountain range Magillecully Reach….

Killogrin ……. Stopped at the 18-19th century Kerry Bog Village and Red Fox Inn…. had an Irish coffee at 9:30 in the morning… yummy!

They are putting in bike trails using the old rail beds all around the “Ring of Kerry”. Sounds familiar???? 

Daniel O’Connell- politician that abolish of slavery across British Empire, etc 

In the 6th century … Brendan, the Navigator discovered Americas 1000 years before Columbus.  Father Hugh O’Flaherty, the Scarlet pimpernel of the Vatican, saved about 4000 allied soldiers and Jews people during the war- got pension for life from France. The three of them were all from the village of 1300 people ….  Garranearagh, Ireland. 

Cable to America and Europe is protected by the navies of Britain, America and Russians 150 miles off the coast from here  in Waterville….. lovely.

Skellig Islands…monks brought Christianity to the world from those islands  

Scarriff Inn for lunch

The country is cutting down all the spruce for native trees. At one time it was thought the spruce were a good thing.