A Week in Wicklow – Part 8: A First and Final Climb
A great week of rest, walking, Geocaching, and exploring Co. Wicklow, and another fantastic week in Ireland - a country that I'm sure we'll visit again and again.
Tag: ireland
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A Week in Wicklow – Part 7: The Hills and Roads
To Walk or not to Walk, that is the question Despite it being predictably unpredictable, We’ve been trying our best to closely watch the weather this week. Our aim has been to be outdoors as much as we can, and do some hill walking if possible. While we’ve certainly been to mountain height, we’ve still […]
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A Week in Wicklow – Part 6: Exploring Southern Wicklow
It was a much quicker trip then we thought it would be, even with a trip around the almost-as-expensive-as-Powerscourt shop. So we quickly committed to doing a few more Geocaches
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A Week in Wicklow – Part 5: Powerscourt House
Radio, Weather and Late Rising Two quick observations. Radio: Radio here is really good. Both East Coast FM and RTE 2 have a really good mix of music. Though, oddly, its all English music. Weather forecasts: We’ve got Freesat here, but it’s been really hard getting a decent forecast for the Republic of Ireland. There […]
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A Week in Wicklow Part 4: Signs, Shoes, Saints, Spink!
The forecast was for patchy rain and our target was Glendalough - "The valley of two lakes" - for some walking and Geocaching.
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A Week in Wicklow – Part 3: The Ways of Wicklow
Ireland is "just over there", and most people speak English, but Ireland can be quite different.
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A Week in Wicklow – Part 2: A Rough Crossing
The crossing - on the "express" ferry - was good but we both felt sea sick and resorted to standing on deck, and wishing it would be over quickly.
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A Week in Wicklow – Part 1: Cottages and Caches
We love Ireland. I've visited the Dingle Peninsula in the south-west twice now, and we've done Northern Ireland, and so, this year, we thought we'd try the east coast.