{"id":84,"date":"2006-05-21T22:21:45","date_gmt":"2006-05-21T22:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/?p=84"},"modified":"2007-01-11T23:13:50","modified_gmt":"2007-01-11T22:13:50","slug":"rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"Rain!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It rained! And rained, and rained, and rained. And then for some variety it rained for a bit. We had big plans &#8211; we were going to drive through the Burren (possibly along the coast road) to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shannonheritage.com\/Cliffs_of_Moher.htm\">Cliffs of Moher<\/a>, 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kinvara.com\/\">Kinvara<\/a>, which looked lovely even through the rain, drove in as far as Lisdoonvarna (where we visited the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burrensmokehouse.ie\/smokehouse\/default.asp\">Burren Smokery<\/a> and bought some lovely smoked salmon) and then headed straight for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shannonheritage.com\/Bunratty_Day.htm\">Bunratty<\/a>. 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.avoca.ie\/home.php\">Avoca shop<\/a>. I still took a picture of the castle though.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Bunratty Castle\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/wp-myimages\/0605bunratty.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We also managed to fit in a stop at the pub for Jo to have her first pint of Guinness &#8211; pretty much obligatory when visiting Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It rained! And rained, and rained, and rained. And then for some variety it rained for a bit. We had big plans &#8211; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-visitors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}