Chaufferdrive tours in Ireland

A sheep with her lamb at the Conor Pass in Dingle

This is a special time of the year for lambs as the newly born enjoy the improving weather. It can be great fun to watch them play as they are just like small children running up and down the hillsides. Dingle is one of those areas where you can find these mountain sheep aplenty with their lambs. This particulr land is not much good for anything else but sheep farming and these sheep roam freely until they are rounded up at particular times of the year. The mountain lands are commonage owned by the state and selected farmers in the locality have grazing rights to particular areas. You cannot just arrive and let your sheep roam the hillsides if you are not legally entitled to grazing these mountains.
All the sheep are free to roam together and are marked so that they can be claimed by their rightful owners when they are finally rounded up. It works well and farmers respect the ownership of their fellow farmers. These sheep are bred purely for their meat and there is no doubt that the meat from the mountain sheep has a much nicer flavour than the domestic sheep. You will always find lamb on the menu in Ireland and it is truly a wonderful dish whether as roast leg of lamb, or lamb cutlets, or rack of lamb, and of course Irish stew. Make sure you try it while you are here.
I continue to be busy eventhough most of my work recently is daily touring, but i have some full scale tours coming up very soon.
The excitement is building as the visits of Queen Elizabeth and President Obama draw nearer. Both of them will be welcomed with open arms by the vast majority of Irish people but i am sure that, as always, there will be a few protesters out there getting far more coverage from the media than they deserve. Let us all hope and pray that both of these visits bring nothing but joy and good will to all concerned. Our esteemed visitors represent two great nations who have in many ways helped and supported us in so many different ways. We have had our problems which hopefully are now mainly behind us and we now have elected politicians representing all side of the divide working in harmony together to heal the wounds of our turbulent past.
May God bless all concerned.
I still have dates available if you are interested in coming our way this year. Just drop me an e-mail if you want any information.