What is it and why do we celebrate it? Pancake Day, also called Shrove Tuesday, Fat Tuesday and Mardi Gras (which is French for “Fat Tuesday”), is the last day of feasting before Lent begins on Ash Wednesday.
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What an exciting year lies ahead! We would like to thank you all for holidaying with us last year. We had a great year and hope you did too. We appreciate all the feedback given and questionnaires received throughout the season as we rely on all this invaluable information and recommendations to continue to raise our standard of holidays and customer satisfaction year after year.
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If there’s anything that says Christmas in Irish homes it is these buttery-rich, sweet, meat-less, melt in the mouth treats that can never be said in the same sentence as ‘oh I’ll just have the one!’ Certainly impossible as the 2nd is even tastier!!
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This time it is our Director of Programmes Sean who shares this favourite walk with you. For him it was easy. As is was Sean himself who dreamed up and initiated the Kerry Way, Ireland’s premier long-distance trail it would always be one of these routes that would win him over! And so the Kells to Glenbeigh section of the Kerry Way it is and here he tells us why…
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When you come to Ireland on holidays do you still send postcards home or with the advance in and extensive use of digital cameras in the last few years, has the traditional postcard become a feature length home movie for all the family on your return?
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As one of our longest walking guides and member of the Go Visit Ireland family, Frank Walsh has covered the length and breadth of Kerry on his feet and bike. His preference however being on foot!
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Our walking guide Ulrich can be found on any hill at any time along the Wild Atlantic West coast of Ireland. Of those of you he has guided you will know that this would have been a difficult decision for him! He had so many walks to choose from it took him a while to commit to his favourite.
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If you find yourself travelling through Killorglin over the 10th, 11th & 12th August make sure you stop and take a wander through Puck Fair Festival. Being born into Killorglin, Puck Fair is in our blood and every year is one of the main calendar events for the town. Everyone comes home for Puck or Christmas!
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It’s not many people that can say they look out at their country’s highest mountain every day but I do, from home and work. And do I take it for granted? Yes I do! I should be more appreciative but yet it’s just a mountain isn’t it? No, it’s Carrantoohil, Ireland’s highest mountain I should be in awe that I get to see it every day.
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The Camino Santiago De Compostela, or Way of St. James, is one of the most famous long distance pilgrimage walks in the world. Its history is steeped in tradition of over a thousand years when pilgrims came to visit the final resting place of the Apostle who, as legend has it, was buried there in the 9th century after his martyrdom in the Holy Land.
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