Claire's blog

It rained! And rained, and rained, and rained. And then for some variety it rained for a bit. We had big plans – we were going to drive through the Burren (possibly along the coast road) to the Cliffs of Moher, and were then planning on driving down to Bunratty for a bit of a look around before dropping Jo off at the airport for her flight. In the end we mostly drove around looking at the scenery from the car. We came up through Kinvara, which looked lovely even through the rain, drove in as far as Lisdoonvarna (where we visited the Burren Smokery and bought some lovely smoked salmon) and then headed straight for Bunratty. Once we got there we thought it was a bit late (and wet!) to have a look around the castle and folk park, but there are some very good and interesting shops we enjoyed browsing around and we had a lovely meal at the cafe in the Avoca shop. I still took a picture of the castle though.

We also managed to fit in a stop at the pub for Jo to have her first pint of Guinness – pretty much obligatory when visiting Ireland.