Day Two: we left Westport for Galway. We saw some great scenery and our first stop was at Croagh Patrick (a mountain where there is a church on the top of the mountain, 790 mtrs up).
Lots of old ladies walk up it once a year, bare feet. We wore shoes, although the locals tried to convince Nige he could do it.
Unfortunately it was a cloudy day at the top of the mountain so we couldnt see the church. Below the mountain there is a 'coffin ship' sculpture. This was erected to remember the dead from the potato famine of 1845.
Below the mountain is a bay where a legendary lady pirate used to keep her ships as it was a shallow bay with sandbars all over it. She apparently married and divorced 3 men, keeping there houses and fortunes.
We then went through the Doolough Valley, stopped for an irish coffee (I had Baileys) and saw a loch where 400 people perished on a cold, stormy night in the 1800's after their landlord turned them away when they arrived to talk to him.
Then it was off to see Kylemore Abbey, this castle popped out of the mountains and looked like a fairytale castle. The legend goes that a man loved his wife so much that he made the castle for her.
After this is was time to go to Galway for the nights sleep.
Unfortunately it was a cloudy day at the top of the mountain so we couldnt see the church. Below the mountain there is a 'coffin ship' sculpture. This was erected to remember the dead from the potato famine of 1845.
Below the mountain is a bay where a legendary lady pirate used to keep her ships as it was a shallow bay with sandbars all over it. She apparently married and divorced 3 men, keeping there houses and fortunes.
We then went through the Doolough Valley, stopped for an irish coffee (I had Baileys) and saw a loch where 400 people perished on a cold, stormy night in the 1800's after their landlord turned them away when they arrived to talk to him.
Then it was off to see Kylemore Abbey, this castle popped out of the mountains and looked like a fairytale castle. The legend goes that a man loved his wife so much that he made the castle for her.
After this is was time to go to Galway for the nights sleep. 
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