An Irish vacation with your own private driver/chauffeur drive

My perfect travelling companions on our tour of Connemara today. This photo was taken at Ashford Castle as we made our way into Joyce country this morning. We also visited the fjord at Leenane, Kylemore Abbey, the Sky Road and Clifden where we stopped for a lovely lunch in a great pub in the town. Then it was on to the harbour town of Roundstone before making our way back through the heart of Connemara to Galway city and on to Kinvara where they are staying tonight.
Bill (now known as Liam) on the Sky road near Clifden. The views from up here are fabulous and you just could not get any nearer to the USA than here. You can see the offshore islands in the background and note that they are still inhabited. If you do visit the Sky road take great care, as the road is very narrow and quiet dangerous if you are not confident about driving on Irish roads. Of course you could always get me to take you there.....much easier, and a lot more relaxing. The day was really nice today, eventhough it was quiet dull as you can see from this picture. This is Kylemore lake with the magical Kylemore Abbey in the background. You can see that Lauren is enjoying making friends with this gorgeous Connemara pony. These lovely horses are really friendly and make great ponies for children as they are not a full horse size and have a wonderful temperament. Connemara is a land of mountains, bogs and lakes and wonderful Atlantic coastline drives. I took this photo on the main Clifden-Galway road on our way home this evening.

I had started out with my new group yesterday and today was our first day of touring. If my party enjoyed it as much as i enjoyed their company then they had a great time, and i do believe that they did.
Tomorrow we head for the Burren and the Cliffs of Moher on our way south. I hope to post as we go so feel free to follow along.