Happy Birthday KEVIN
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
Kevin’s Big Birthday Today
Written from the Upper Tower Room
11:01 PM
Enjoyed another yummy breakfast this morning, plus had the company of the other guests, a young couple from Belfast, Gary and Coran (pronounced Karen), who was celebrating her 40th birthday.
As we left the castle for the day, the plan for Kevin's birthday celebration was to visit someplace so ancient we would not feel so old ourselves, New Grange (dated 3200 B.C. – 500 years older than the Pyramids).
The leisurely drive through Kells was filled with sunshine. First time we wore our sunglasses.
Stopped at the Saint Columba church, got locked inside the gate and had to walf 100 yards to get out.
Once at New Grange we were in time for the final tour of the day before darkness set in. Inside the “passage” of New Grange was beyond description. The cantilevered stone-work was amazing. We actually climbed slowly uphill as we ducked our heads through the very narrow pass way so that once inside, the front door roof box was then below us. We each took turns kneeling in one spot, looking back down from whence we came and if you looked just right, could see through the roof box out beyond to the horizon. This is the spot through which the sun shone a beam of light during the winter solstice. So many questions were answered by the guide with “We just don’t know.”
On the way back to "our" castle we stopped in Kells for a FancySchmancy dinner at the Vanilla Pod (part of a beautiful hotel). What a menu! Kev had a steak with garlic gratin potatoes and carmelized sweet onions. I enjoyed a tiger prawn Caeser salad. Broke da mouth onolicious!
Back to "our" castle for a private celebration. No details to publish . . . . just a huge full moon framed by the stone windows.
Kevin’s Big Birthday Today
Written from the Upper Tower Room
11:01 PM
Enjoyed another yummy breakfast this morning, plus had the company of the other guests, a young couple from Belfast, Gary and Coran (pronounced Karen), who was celebrating her 40th birthday.
As we left the castle for the day, the plan for Kevin's birthday celebration was to visit someplace so ancient we would not feel so old ourselves, New Grange (dated 3200 B.C. – 500 years older than the Pyramids).
The leisurely drive through Kells was filled with sunshine. First time we wore our sunglasses.
Stopped at the Saint Columba church, got locked inside the gate and had to walf 100 yards to get out.
Once at New Grange we were in time for the final tour of the day before darkness set in. Inside the “passage” of New Grange was beyond description. The cantilevered stone-work was amazing. We actually climbed slowly uphill as we ducked our heads through the very narrow pass way so that once inside, the front door roof box was then below us. We each took turns kneeling in one spot, looking back down from whence we came and if you looked just right, could see through the roof box out beyond to the horizon. This is the spot through which the sun shone a beam of light during the winter solstice. So many questions were answered by the guide with “We just don’t know.”
On the way back to "our" castle we stopped in Kells for a FancySchmancy dinner at the Vanilla Pod (part of a beautiful hotel). What a menu! Kev had a steak with garlic gratin potatoes and carmelized sweet onions. I enjoyed a tiger prawn Caeser salad. Broke da mouth onolicious!
Back to "our" castle for a private celebration. No details to publish . . . . just a huge full moon framed by the stone windows.
Kevin here . . .
I hope you're enjoying our blog. Don't forget to leave comments. Also, I just figured out that we can only publish 3 pictures a day. Since we wont get to an internet cafe everyday, there wont be pictures with every post. Sorry. No worries, we'll have hundreds of photos to bore you with when we get back!
My birthday was the best ever! I can't add much to that.
We haven't seen any ghosts in "our" castle yet, but others have (really). Oh well, we brought our monkeys to protect us.
That's all for now, be good and maybe your wishes will come true too.
Kevin and Renee
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