Day One in Ireland

We arrived about 6:45 am Wednesday. I managed to get about two hours of sleep on the plane so the jet lag was not too bad. By the time we got through imigrations and customs and got the rental car it was after 7:30 and everyone was ready for breakfast. It was decided that we should go to this neat little crepe shop in downtown Dublin. Bad idea.  Rush hour traffic, a gps that was not working properly and me driving a right hand steer car on the wrong side of the road for the first time in 30 years. We did make it however.  

That's me standing outside the crepe shop waiting for the rest of the party to leave. We are starting our journey to the ancient Knowth burial grounds about a 45 minute trip north. 

These burial mounds date back 5000 years and are in fact older than Stonehenge. We are talking Stone Age here people. 

Some of the stone art. 

Passage to the tomb chamber. 

After Knowth we were on our way to Adare to check into our hotel. This was a 3 hour trip and the jet lag was beginning to catch up with me. We did manage to make it.  We dropped of our bags and headed to the little village of Adare for dinner. Dinner was typical pub grub at one of the local pubs. 

Our small group after the meal. By the way the food was good and the Guinness was excellent, not the same stuff you get in America. The Irish are some of the nicest people you will ever meet. If you meet one on the street and say hello, you have a instant conversation. If they recognize you are American(and they will) it will be hard to stop talking.  

Stay tuned for more on Ireland.