Posts by Elisabeth Sowerbutts
Vacation Packing List: The Ultimate What to Pack For Vacation Guide
One of the most popular questions on any travel forum – what should I take? What should I take it in? A long time ago, before the Internet even and before my first long solo strip a friend persuaded me to leave half my proposed pile of gear behind. Two weeks later I had to…
Read MoreWelcome to the Lis’s Travel Tips Blog!
Hi and welcome to the new Lis’s Travel Tips blog! This blog is here to promote my eBook series: Lis’s Travel Tips and to provide additional material for my readers. I’d like to tell you how I got the idea for the Travel Tips series. It was obvious in retrospect I guess. I love to…
Read MoreIndependent Travel: Ballyvaughan to Cork
First we went to the Barren Experience Centre – audio visual show at €5/person which was a good introduction to the neolithic stone tombs of the area and the limestone karst geology that made them possible. A few wild flowers were out and it was remote and beautiful in the area. Then we drove over…
Read MoreIndependent Travel: Galway to Ballyvaughan via Corcomroe
Weather a lot drier and warmer today. We drove the loop around Corcomoroe. Stopped at Kylenoc (sp?) house €10 to see the grounds and the house – hardly worth it. But they did have a nice gift shop – I bought a jade dolphin to add to the collection – and they tried to charge…
Read MoreIndependent Travel:Dingle – Galloway
The weather turned nasty so our attempt at long distance walking ended in failure. Its interesting compared to the UK Ireland is really not set up for walking. The concept of common ways doesn’t exist in Irish law and tracks seem very poorly marked – you really need to have the detailed topo maps –…
Read MoreIndependent Travel: Kilkarney to Dingle
In the morning the weather wasn’t so bad so we went to see the grounds of Muckross House in town. Walked to the bottom of the Torc Waterfall which was about 4km return – and on the return it started raining again. Still cold with snow on the hills. Didn’t go into the house –…
Read MoreIndependent Travel: Killarney and the Ring of Kerry
Raining still in the morning but it did improve during the day. There had been snow on the hills overnight and it was a lot colder and windy compared to what we had been having. Drove the Ring of Kerry the Ring of Beara’s more famous sister. We took a €5 car ferry over to…
Read MoreIndependent Travel: Glengariff to Kilkenney via the Ring of Beara
Well this was supposed to be the highlight of driving the Beara Ring – less famous than the Ring of Kerry but apparently arguably even better. Unfortunately I can’t really comment – because through the mist and the rain we didn’t see a lot. And the roads were very narrow so the driver really had…
Read MoreIndependent Travel: Baltimore to Glengarif
Took the short ferry trip over to Sherkin Island – 15 minutes and €7 pp. Walked the length of the island – three hours. Quiet with very few other tourists – warm and fine weather. Got back to Baltimore about 3pm just as it started to rain. Skibbereen was a bit wet – but did…
Read MoreIndependent Travel: Cork to Baltimore
Skipping over the whole family visiting – kid focused activity bit – we are finally off out of Cork for a tour of the west of Ireland. We are boring a dinky little 2 seater van my brother owns so I can’t tell you much about the cost of hiring a vehicle – but I…
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