Ireland Castle

I'm a little behind, so I will do this in two posts. This is a picture of Ross Castle, which is the 500+ year old castle we stayed in outside of Dublin. Don and I stayed in the upstairs tower bedroom - the highest room in the house. The castle is supposedly haunted, though we didn't have any scary encounters. It has several bedrooms and typically on a weekend we would have had to share the place with one or more other groups, but since it was midweek we had the whole place to ourselves. The caretaker is the niece of the Canadian man who owns it and she lives on a farm some kilometers away; so we really were there all on our own. It is hard to explain what it is like to stay in a place that old and legendary. Alan took a 40-minute video walking all through, so we will have to save that somewhere for people who are interested. It was seriously cool! Then we had to hurry back to Dublin airport (the last of having to drive on the wrong side of the road! YAY!) to catch our flight to Stockholm. Next post "fran Sverige." ~K