Touring Southern Ireland with Chauffeurdrivencar and driver

At last.....an opportunity to wear their new rain hats. Well the weather looks worse than it actually was. Here we have the girls standing together at Ladies View high in the mountains on the Ring of Kerry yesterday. It was here that Queen Victoria stood with her handmaidens and proclaimed this view to be the most beautiful in the Kingdom. In the backgound you have the lakes of Killarney and i would not argue with the Great Victoria at all. My party was reduced in size yesterday as Kathy and Tea took the option of spending time in the town of Killarney together until we returned in the early afternoon.

Having a healthy snack at Moll's Gap at the top of the mountains. Things like chocolate cake, carrot cake, Banoffi pie and Pavlova with fresh cream. Irish calories are really good for you....the more the merrier.

 When we had come back down rom the mountains and into the Killarney National Forest Park we visited Muchross House Estate wherw Queen Victoria stayed during her visit to Killarney. Here we began out tour of the farmhouses, the old restored dwellings common to Irish farmers back in the early nineteen hundreds. Here we have the girls ready to board the bus which takes you from house to house on the circuit. This is a really lovely tour.

The ladies, sitting in front of a turf fire on the farm house tour. 

Pigs enjoying their snack.

The girls outside one of the house.

 Robin holding a baby newborn lamb with Karen about to be kissed.

In the gardens at Muckross House with the magnificent Rhododendrons blooming in the background.