| Lunch and Snack continue
around the Emerald Isle |
 | "Snack!
We've found our Irish ancestors!!!" |
 | The cows
take a boatride from Portmagee to Skellig Michael -- a 45-minute trip to a VERY
cool World Heritage Site. |
 | Lunch and
Snack take a look at the beehive huts at the Skellig Michael monastery site,
more than 600 stone steps above the surrounding ocean.
"Gosh Snack, I can hardly believe people actually LIVED in these." |
 | The cows
look down from one of the huts to a view of Little Skellig Island, the companion
rock to Great Skellig. |
 | These are
grave markers for some of the unknown monks who called Skellig Michael their
home as far back as the Seventh Century. |
 | "Gosh
Lunch, I wonder what they mean by that?" |
 | "Oh, I
guess THAT'S what they mean." Just another obstacle on the narrow roads of
Ireland. |
 | "Now for
us cows, this is more like it!" Lunch and Snack discover a quiet pasture in
Killarney National Park -- a perfect place to graze. |
 | Lunch and
Snack find a tranquil spot next to a waterfall in Killarney National Park. The
park provides a wide variety of terrain and outstanding vistas not far from the
town of Killarney. |
 | While in
Killarney, the cows get to explore another castle. At the eastern edge of
Killarney National Park, Ross Castle was built in the 15th Century by one of the
O'Donoghue Ross chieftans. |
 | Heading
up the carriageway, the cows find another castle to explore. This one is Roscrea
Castle in the town of Roscrea, County Tipperary. |
 | "Lunch,
is this what the castle really looked like?" The cows discover a model of what
Roscrea Castle was like back in the 1300s. |
 | Lunch and Snack make
their way back to Dublin for a stroll along the River Liffey. |
 | Back to
college? The cows line up for a tour of Trinity College, home of the famous Book
of Kells, one of the greatest examples of illustrated manuscripts. It consists
of four gospels of the Bible inscribed by monks in the early Ninth Century.
|
 | But after
a morning of manuscripts and antiquities, it's time for some refreshment! Lunch
and Snack pay a visit to the Guinness Storehouse, a museum and monument to the
brewing of Guinness Stout, the national beer of Ireland. |
 | "Is this cow heaven?"
Snack rolls in a sea of barley -- a prime ingredient of beer and a wonderful
bovine dinner.
 | At the
end of the tour, the cows sample the wares with a couple of pints of Guinness at
the Gravity Bar, high above the city of Dublin. |
 | Upon
leaving the Guinness Storehouse, the cows pay homage to St. James Gate -- the
fabled door to the grounds of the Guinness Brewery. |
 | Time to
bid Ireland a fond farewell, but it's an opportunity to depart in style. The
cows board the Ulysses ferry - the largest in the world - to cross the Irish Sea
to Holyhead in Wales. |
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