Ireland Trip Part 5...Dingle Peninsula

Our third day in Ireland started off in search of cheap breakfast. After some googling, I found a place in Limerick called John's Street Deli that boasted a full Irish breakfast for around 6 euros.  This was a lot of food for cheap!  The full Irish breakfast here included eggs, pork and beans, two sausages, two ginormous pieces of bacon (Irish bacon is way different than our bacon), mushrooms, grilled tomato, and black and white pudding.  What is black and white pudding?  I will tell you it is *not* vanilla and chocolate!  It is some weird meat patty thing, and the black one is black because it includes congealed pig blood.  Is your mouth watering yet???  I skipped the full breakfast for some scrambled eggs and bacon.  But Michael choked gobbled down every bite of his.  Needless to say, we skipped lunch that day. 

After breakfast we walked on down to King John's Castle and then stepped into St. Mary's Cathedral.  Then we went on to do what I realllly wanted to do...drive the Dingle Peninsula.  We probably could have made a few more stops along the peninsula, but we had spent too much time in Limerick and stuff closes around 5 in Ireland.  Anyway, Michael wanted to see a beach, so the first stop we made was at Inch Beach.  Talk about some wind!  It was soooo cold too!  But we stayed and collected some shells and took a few pics.  Then we stopped at the Famine Houses and learned all about the potato famine that killed so many people.  Next stop was the Blasket Island Centre, where we learned a great deal about the island and the people who lived there at one time.  And then finally we stopped in the town of Dingle for a bite to eat.  We met an older Irish gentleman on the street, who was telling my husband what a good-lookin' woman he was with. ;)  We chatted for a few minutes and then asked where was a good place to eat and ended up at Danno's.  I had the best hamburger I have ever eaten in my life!  Then we headed back to Limerick.  This was a lot of driving in one day, but it was a great day!  Here are some pics:

King John's Castle

St. Mary's Cathedral

St. Mary's Cathedral

Inch Beach

Famine House

Dingle harbor

Along the peninsula...