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Our trip to Dunquin Cottage
on the Dingle Peninsula,
Ireland, April 11-21, 2007


Page Two – Dunquin Cottage



After breakfast, we caught a cab to Dublin Airport, picked up our car, and headed down to Dunquin. The weather was beautiful, again, and the drive only took us about 5 hours, including a stop at Garvey’s supermarket in Dingle. From there we took the Slea Head drive, a narrow road winding along the edge of the peninsula with spectacular views of the cliffs. We had trouble finding the caretaker’s house because Barb didn’t read ALL the directions, but we did finally get the key and made our way to the cottage.

A view of the sunset from the car on Slea Head Drive:



Slea Head drive on the map:



The cottage on the map:




DUNQUIN COTTAGE


Oh, my! What a wonderful place! It looked EXACTLY like the photos on the website and was immaculate. There were windows everywhere and three skylights so it was bright and cheery.

The exterior:




The living room:




The dining room and fireplace:




The hallway to bath and kitchen:




The kitchen was huge:






The bathroom:




Another view of the living-dining, with stairs leading to bedroom:




The bedroom:




The second bedroom, reached by a ladder from the kitchen, with a single bed:




Across the road from the cottage was a grazing field and, beyond that the sea and the Blasket Islands. The island in this picture is the sleeping giant.

The view from the cottage:






Link: the cottage website (a new window will open).


( Press here for the cottage we rented in 2008 – very different but equally nice (a new window will open). )


After we unloaded the car, KC beckoned me over to the stone wall between the road and the field. I thought he wanted me to look at the view but, when I got to where he was standing and peered over the wall, I saw a bunch of sheep staring back at me! The length and thickness of their coats was amazing.

Sheep across from cottage:







MOVIE: sheep across from cottage (a new window will open).


We didn’t feel like cooking so we drove to The Stonehouse restaurant, hoping to get a quick meal, and were dismayed to find they were completely booked! So we drove back into Dingle and had dinner at Murphy’s Pub (fish and chips for KC and baked Dingle Bay salmon for me). For dessert, we shared a sticky toffee pudding that was out of this world! It was warm, served with a caramel sauce and vanilla ice cream. There was music planned for later that night but we were too tired to wait for it.

There were a lot of books in the cottage, including many on the Dingle Peninsula, so we spent the rest of the evening browsing and determining what we wanted to see and do. We read all the entries in the guest books for suggestions and advice. KC was like a sponge, soaking up every bit of available information and making mental lists of all the things he wanted to do. I’m SO glad I brought him along!

We were hoping for a real gully washer that night but it never materialized. Somehow, time slipped by, and it was after 1am by the time we hit the hay.

Barb reading in “her” chair in the living room:





Page 1: Dublin
Page 2: Dunquin Cottage.
Page 3: Dunmore Head / An Droichead Beag.
Page 4: The Blasket Islands / O’Flaherty’s.
Page 5: Gallarus Oratory / Shopping
Page 6: Anascaul
Original, all-on-one-page version.

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Note to self: bring the following next time: scissors, paring knife, Melitta cone and filters (press-pot is too hard to clean), and costco plastic wrap.

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