place to stop and have a nice warm lunch. We found a great sweater shop. The most popular pattern in the sweaters is O'Brien so there were no more sweaters in that pattern. we looked around and got socks and gloves and picked up the O'Brien
pattern so we could knit our own sweaters with the family pattern. We found a burger king in Killarney. It was the only burger king we had seen in the country but we didn't go there. we wanted Irish.Found a great little pub Murphy's and had tortellini in a cream tomato sauce
with a half pint of Killkenny beer and Maureen had a huge piece of cod and chips with same. It was very good and the bar people were very friendly too.
We looked at our walking tours card and found our way to the Franciscan Friary. I have always loved St Francis but then who doesn't.
A beautiful statue of him was in the front of the church. The Franciscans had been around that area for about 600 years.
Lets see, Canada was just discovered by John Cabot 600 years ago.
In the 1900's they built this church or added onto it.
It was very nice. Yellow with lots of wood.
Full of stunning mosaic tile walls and stained glass windows by famous Irish artisans. There was also a bell, very nice.
We wandered back to the car, picking up some Van Morrison and traditional Irish music Cd's on the way.
We headed out to the Ring of Kerry. Earlier we had found out that the tour buses all travel the Ring of Kerry only going in one direction.
This makes a lot of sense as, if two buses meet on these roads it would be impossible for them to pass each other. We had also learned that the buses travel on the inside lane so no scary cliff moments.
We wanted to follow the same route as the tour buses so we wouldn't have to worry a
bout meeting any buses coming toward us for the whole way. We did have a kind of Freudian slip of the tongue, we called it the ring of Scary.
My granddaughter Aurora would love Ireland. All the horses.
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